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nopperl / load-reddit-images-directly

Firefox web extension that loads reddit images directly instead of referring to the HTML page containing the image.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/load-reddit-images-directly/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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No longer works #16

Open brndd opened 3 months ago

brndd commented 3 months ago

Since seemingly a few days ago, the extension no longer works. Not sure what changed, as I'm not familiar with how Reddit used to behave. Visiting a direct image link (e.g. https://i.redd.it/vcfftomz9ttc1.jpeg) now has the server return 307 Temporary Redirect to a page that embeds the image, and this is not blocked by the addon.

mlynch commented 2 months ago

Sadge, this extension is making new reddit actually bearable for me

nopperl commented 2 months ago

@brndd @mlynch that's curious, could you send me the URL that https://i.redd.it/vcfftomz9ttc1.jpeg redirects to on your end?

I can't reproduce this. I just tried it again on a new Firefox installation on both new and old reddit and it still works (including your provided link).

brndd commented 2 months ago

It redirected me to https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fvcfftomz9ttc1.jpeg

However, the addon now seems to spontaneously work again with no changes on my end -- I don't think I even updated Firefox in the mean time. I'll let you know if the issue comes back.