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		compiler-guy on June 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day ... Part of the goal here is to prevent people from clicking on malicious links. A preview helps with that. Or, more simply, you can't be rickrolled if you know the destination in advance.

netsharc on June 11, 2020 [–]

The next level would be for the server to see who is requesting content. Facebook IP? "Here's some harmless HTML!". Browser IP? "Here's an executable pretending to be a harmless page!"

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