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qrbLPHiKpiux on July 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Photos is making photos semi-public

> perfectly valid way to secure a resource.

There are none. Once an endpoint has something, it's on their machine. Right click, Save As...

signal11 on July 14, 2019 [–]

Flickr has had a feature for a long time now that tries to defeat "Save as". Of course, browsers' Dev Tools are a trivial workaround.

FWIW if you have a Flickr CDN URL then that too seems to work without any authentication. For instance: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48274947792_bf34cdc98a_o...

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