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Originally Posted by handyman
I think they are blocked to stop people stealing bandwidth by hot linking.
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Nope, they're not. If that were the case I wouldn't have been able to see them when I previewed my post.
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Originally Posted by ikthius
you have to visit the site before you can see the images.
this is just ridiculous.
I think if anyone is posting links, dont......
copy the images and upload them here for all to see.
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Having to visit the site before being able to see the images would seem to imply a cookie being stored. If that were the case, then when I just downloaded & installed Opera & viewed my post in that I shouldn't have been able to see the images, except they showed up just fine. As to why I didn't just attach them, I'm unsure of how much total storage CF provides, as the attachment management page of the User Control Panel only lists the attachments, how many there are, & how much space they take up, not what the limit is, & I don't want to go using it all up.
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Originally Posted by altis
That site obviously doesn't like embedded images. Try using links instead.
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Embedded images work fine when I view them. I just did a test in the preview of my post to embed an image I hadn't viewed before [meaning it couldn't be in Firefox's cache], & it worked fine.
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Originally Posted by altis
Errm...
The site seems a bit clever. Try cutting and pasting the link instead of clicking.
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I don't think it's anything clever on the site's behalf, I've seen plenty of examples of the kinds of measures you seem to think they're employing, & it doesn't appear to be using any of them.
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Originally Posted by Pia
I agree, really really grates on me when i am reading a thread based on pictures and there is no pictures there  The Girls/Lads you lust over.... desktop/workstation/funny pic etc etc are all examples of it from the older posts. |
Some of that [in the GYLO thread] is because either the post has been edited by a mod to remove the image because it was in breach of forum rules, or the image is no longer available on the site it was hosted on [404 error when checking the image directly, I tried it on a number of them].
I'm curious as to whether some of those unable to view them are either doing so from work or from a computer with some form of net-nanny type software, as that site does have plenty of images that would be considered NSFW.