[Discussion]Re: obfuscation | Megalinks MegaDB

Noob447 | 24 points | Jun 02 2017 15:59:06

[Discussion]Re: obfuscation | Megalinks MegaDB [Discussion]Re: obfuscation

I had a random idea about link obfuscation to increase the longevity of a share:

What if we were to share a snapshot of the link? We would probably need to make sure it's not a giant screenshot for uploading purposes.

It's obviously horribly inconvenient but bots wouldn't be able to detect it, right? I guess it wouldn't be necessary if the content is intentionally temporary but I figure it would be a good measure if you want content to stay up.

[-] [deleted] | 10 points | Jun 02 2017 16:13:48

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[-] ThatOneDudeHere | 3 points | Jun 02 2017 18:51:02

I have yet to get a single steno image to decode. I'm 100% sure the password is right. I really appreciate other forms of the link.

[-] Noob447 | 1 points | Jun 02 2017 16:17:26

Ah that's a shame. I wasn't aware of the image scraping. I assumed it was safer from bots because the new image captchas from Google, etc.

[-] radiocaf | 1 points | Jun 03 2017 18:54:41

I use a NAS to download from this subreddit, it would hamper me majorly, as good an idea as it is.

[-] procrasturbate_daily | 6 points | Jun 02 2017 18:18:27

itd be super inconvenient

and a bot could use OCR to detect the letters

[-] deadashellhp | 3 points | Jun 02 2017 21:36:19

I think the Base64 is pretty cool.

[-] [deleted] | 6 points | Jun 02 2017 22:19:16

the base64 is literally one line of code more in a bot. its totally useless :P

coreutils

echo "base64string" | base64 --decode

Captcha are the only viable long term solution.

[-] deadashellhp | 1 points | Jun 02 2017 23:47:32

I didn't say it was effective, I just think it's cool to have to use a cipher.

[-] [deleted] | 1 points | Jun 03 2017 00:43:32

Actually I'm not sure this channel is even parsed by bots. If it were then all the old links would be dead as well, but lots of month old links work fine. I think someone just reports the 'new/front page' every few hours/days.

[-] sirin3 | 1 points | Jun 03 2017 09:02:34

I wrote a bot for myself, so I can just click the link and do not have to solve silly riddles ಠ_ಠ

[-] AnkitIndia | 3 points | Jun 02 2017 22:55:00

We could insert a random math problem into the url that is simple enough for people to solve but it makes the URL weird enough to confuse the bot.

[-] Quikmix | 4 points | Jun 02 2017 23:16:19

I KNEW those differential equations in Calc would come in handy.

[-] sirin3 | 4 points | Jun 03 2017 08:58:03

If there is one thing people can do better than computers, it is math

[-] is_it_fun | 2 points | Jun 02 2017 23:08:43

This is a good idea.

[-] 12mo | 3 points | Jun 03 2017 17:28:57

Switch one letter (for example here). This is very easy for humans. All the other solutions are pretty annoying for humans (base64 etc) and incredibly easy for machines, so they defeat the purpose.

[-] sirin3 | 2 points | Jun 03 2017 09:01:51

You could use a magic eye image

[-] radiocaf | 1 points | Jun 03 2017 18:52:51

That hurts my eyes...!