Another idea is canvas: https://jsfiddle.net/dvg45pcz/
But I don't know how to get it to not appear in network sources.
Or wasm but I don't know how to write that.
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#112This is a perfect (if maybe unintentional) example of how to get help from otherwise disinterested technical folk: Make an obviously technically-incorrect claim as fact, and watch as an entire army comes out of the woodwork giving you technical evaluations :)
I’m aware of this phenomenon, but have never tested it (confidently posting something incorrect to get responses with the real answer). Has anyone here actually tried this? How did it work?
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#113wget and aria2c both works. I get a jpg image 54,8 KiB, SHA256 sum 204788602166C017B8FEF5D63EDFD814DC9865233C410BCDAD713F78DAE5AF18
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#114It worked fine on iOS (confirmed in my photo library)
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#115This is a perfect (if maybe unintentional) example of how to get help from otherwise disinterested technical folk: Make an obviously technically-incorrect claim as fact, and watch as an entire army comes out of the woodwork giving you technical evaluations :)
Cunningham's Law [1]: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer".
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#116My usual way of downloading images is to click and drag the image into my downloads folder on my Mac. Worked fine for me from Safari. Am I missing something?
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#118I was about to "Save as..." when suddenly it struck me that this would be an incredible bait to spread a virus.
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#119There's another way to achieve this in a more malicious way. Granted I haven't tried it in years, but it was possible back in 2017 when I tested it. The idea is to fake the image that's being displayed in the IMG element by forcing it to show a `background-image` using `height: 0;` and `padding-top`. In theory, you could make an IMG element show a photo of puppies and if the person chose to Right-click > Save Image A…
Not very new, the technique's probably been around since the 2000's... e.g. you can't right click, save as on the web version of Instagram because all the images are background-images attached to DIVs. In the "old days" there'd be a 1x1 transparent GIF above the image, so any downloader would download that instead.
More like 1990s, but yes.
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#120I chuckled about this.
However you can drag and drop it to your Desktop on macOS.