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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by caslon on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:22PM (#31067000)
The Wayback Machine interface breaks.
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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by bscphil on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:44AM (#31067518)
Do you have an example of this? What exactly breaks? I use Wayback all the time and have had no obvious problems.
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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by caslon on Monday April 18, 2022 @06:40PM (#31077569)
Has been the case for a bunch of people with them turned off for a while now:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WaybackMachine/comments/kzvzxl/fail...

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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by bscphil on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:07PM (#31078315)
Unless I'm mistaken, you've misunderstood the issue. From your link:

> it happened to me and I figured out it started when I disabled website.referrersEnabled

So if you completely disable sending the referer header, it breaks. This would probably also happen if you set `network.http.sendRefererHeader` to 0 or 1.

But that's not what I suggested! I only suggested disabling sending the header externally, to other sites, when the host domain (*.example.org) changes. In fact, someone in the thread you linked says that doing this instead of disabling it completely fixed the issue for them:

> ok I left network.http.sendRefererHeader on 2 (had it on 1), and changing network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy to 2 it works

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