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It's just as easy to allow downloads, but it seems a lot more common for sites to go out of their way to disallow video downloads than gif downloads. Also a bunch of them use video tags that don't point to an actual video file but get fed video content out of band.

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I'm "guilty" of this on my video site https://pushups.ndn.today (does not work on iOS). So far one person figured out how to download those videos, after spending 4 hours studying my source code.

I've got to imagine that comment as leading to a honeypot; what I heard "prove you're a good hacker by downloading video from my site".

This is the web nerd equivalent of sitting next to a petrol-head at the traffic lights revving your engine.

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