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550 points polskibus | 2 comments | 08 Feb 19 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sly010 ◴[08 Feb 19 17:05 UTC] No.19116255[source]▶
I wonder at which point will we just stream pages as interactive video content with a text optimized codec. Most pages on the internet are bloated to the point where it might just make sense. (I am not advocating, I am predicting)
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1. loosetypes ◴[08 Feb 19 18:57 UTC] No.19117501[source]▶
If you stream movies from sites like 123movies, they play a similar obfuscation game but are moving towards your hypothetical.

While many players, despite deeply nested html, still point directly to where the content is hosted (ex, a file on openload.co), an increasing number take your mentioned approach and load the content as a blob so folks won't bypass their ads.

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2. efreak ◴[09 Feb 19 07:26 UTC] No.19121193[source]▶
IIRC you can directly download a blob from the blob internals page; I think you can also see them somewhere in the developer console, and I've got a bookmarklet that allows feeding a blob URI into it for download.