Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
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Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#24 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive.
(And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#34 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive. (And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just us…
Oh that's clever, I totally forgot about this. Archive is amazing.
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#4Very amusing but I take issue with the article's claim that "Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds" - this might be an oversimpified perspective when it's actually a good argument to use subresource integrity (essentially cryptographic pinning of third party embedded content). I am unsure if this extends to every kind of resource that you could have in a web page, (ideally it should) but I could imagine a JS shim being used to cover some edge cases.
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#5Genuinely curious, how does a company manage their domains after they shut down their services to prevent this kind of stuff
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#6Very amusing but I take issue with the article's claim that "Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds" - this might be an oversimpified perspective when it's actually a good argument to use subresource integrity (essentially cryptographic pinning of third party embedded content). I am unsure if this extends to every kind of resource that you could have in a web page, (ideally it should) but I co…
Subresource integrity would prevent the porn from showing up, but the videos would still be broken. Hosting the videos yourself is the option that would keep things running.
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#7Very amusing but I take issue with the article's claim that "Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds" - this might be an oversimpified perspective when it's actually a good argument to use subresource integrity (essentially cryptographic pinning of third party embedded content). I am unsure if this extends to every kind of resource that you could have in a web page, (ideally it should) but I co…
Video embeds tend to be especially fragile however since they're often implemented by gluing together a relatively large number of third party services. Any one of the services goes down or changes the API and the whole thing breaks.
Ask any uMatrix user how much fun it is to get a video to play on some websites and just how much external crap you have to allow before you see the first frame.
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#84 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive. (And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just us…
That really is an amazing organization.
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#9Genuinely curious, how does a company manage their domains after they shut down their services to prevent this kind of stuff
I would think the same way a person would posthumously: let it expire and let natural order take over or delegate ownership via legal/custodial means.
Sorry that doesn’t answer your question more than “it depends on the entity”.
Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase
#10Very amusing but I take issue with the article's claim that "Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds" - this might be an oversimpified perspective when it's actually a good argument to use subresource integrity (essentially cryptographic pinning of third party embedded content). I am unsure if this extends to every kind of resource that you could have in a web page, (ideally it should) but I co…
Subresource integrity would prevent the porn from showing up, but the videos would still be broken. Hosting the videos yourself is the option that would keep things running.
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