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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by bigiain on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:32PM (#1473801)
Surely the "scan rss feed and grab all the photos" tool could be re-written as a client side javascript app? Then they could only block it by blocking all their users :-)
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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by jackowayed on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:37PM (#1473814)
That came to my mind too, but I don't think it's doable thanks to XSS restrictions.

To prevent nefarious scripts, XSS (cross-site scripting) isn't allowed by browsers. Thus, when you're on a posterous.com page, javascript can only make requests to posterous.com. When you're on a twitpic.com page, javascript can only make requests to twitpic.com. The way sites get around this is by making the request to the external site from their servers, but then the calls would still come from Posterous servers, so it would get blocked.

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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by caf on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:38AM (#1474161)
You could actually do it as a bookmarklet, though.
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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by andreyf on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @12:10AM (#1473889)
Make it a Chrome extension? Doable in a couple of hours, and might get more people to switch to Chrome. Goodness all around :)
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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by megablast on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:28AM (#1474062)
Why the hate for firefox? I support firefox more, it started all the improvements in browsers, is done by a small company, and doesn't have so many fingers into my privacy pie.
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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by helium on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:11AM (#1474112)
That is not hate for Firefox, it's love for Chrome....
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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by woogley on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @10:49AM (#1474973)
I wouldn't say Firefox "started" all the improvements ... Opera has been at the forefront for a long time, natural progression has taken place over the years, and now Firefox is playing catch-up with things like tab-isolation and HTML5
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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by csytan on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @05:31AM (#1474319)
On paper it seems possible with JSONP requests and canvas' getImageData().
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