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For third party sites like googledrive I think you're right but if it is your own site, you can restrict based on referer.


Even that is easily forged, although that takes care of some casual sharing arguably.


Yeah, the argument I guess is most people won't go that far over small payments like $2-5 kind of like how news sites have a paywall you can bypass with archive.is


This is a no code solution




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