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		duskwuff on July 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purch... The embeds don't actually "work", per se. When the browser tries to load the embed into an <iframe>, it gets redirected to the home page of the porn site, and ends up displaying the upper left corner of that page in the space where the video embed was supposed to go. It all looks rather more accidental than purposeful.

one_off_comment on Aug 2, 2021 [–]

Ah, good to know. That explains it. I feel like this aspect was lost in reporting this. It was all made to sound much more deliberate.

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