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> And there might be a person specific id in the link you get

This is how they know I'm doing it, each url seems to be custom generated for the specific view of the post from an account because they actually expire too eventually. But you know "scraping" is like sharing what? 15 image links off the walled garden a month?

Just think it's an insane amount of effort to go to for them to try to make the internet stop working like the internet.

Upsets me this is where we got to with image sharing vs the open and remix culture of pre-yahoo Tumblr.



The solution is to simply stop using their services. That's how you reclaim the internet: by refusing to participate in walled gardens.




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