Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos...
by Macha on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:39PM
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imgur does some referer detection server side to redirect you to the html page if they think they can. So it's possible that the user is getting sent to the web view.
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Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos...
by Semaphor on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:43PM
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Do you have any source for that? I have never had this happen.
Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos...
by Macha on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:55PM
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From when it was added: https://blog.imgur.com/2017/06/21/a-new-look-for-direct-link...
The article states that it's been turned back off, but I'm not sure when that edit was. At the very least, here's a report of it happening two months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/IgnorantImgur/comments/diunko/why_d...