It's just as easy to allow downloads, but it seems a lot more common for sites to go out of their way to disallow video downloads than gif downloads. Also a bunch of them use video tags that don't point to an actual video file but get fed video content out of band.

I'm "guilty" of this on my video site https://pushups.ndn.today (does not work on iOS). So far one person figured out how to download those videos, after spending 4 hours studying my source code.

I've got to imagine that comment as leading to a honeypot; what I heard "prove you're a good hacker by downloading video from my site".

This is the web nerd equivalent of sitting next to a petrol-head at the traffic lights revving your engine.

(Are we talking about Reddit's terrible videos?)

I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now.

> I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now.

Are we talking about the same Reddit that still runs three different versions of their website because the newest version is so bad that people refuse to use it? I'm not holding my breath.

I did mentally facepalm after I wrote that.

They seem to be following the 'ooh shiny' philosophy of software development.

Unless they have a loop indicator in the file it's not a GIF replacement.

Most messaging platforms/chatrooms won't autoplay video. Which in the context of quick "reactions" doesn't work well at all.