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I've seen them do this in some capacity for like a decade


Strange - I'm pretty sure I used to be able to directly link to an image, and that would be the only thing that loaded (had to 'open image in new tab' after uploading to find the direct link)

Possibly they did different things for different IP blocks?


It's somewhat related to Referrer in the headers, AFAIR




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