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Galen Weston named in Epstein Files. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/loblawsisoutofcontrol@lemmy.ca
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[+] -13 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Ah, I found the problem. That's not a PDF document at all, that's an HTML document that's attempting to prompt me for my age.

Get your links right homie, that's not a PDF at all.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    But it's a very surface level prompt. Is it just me that has instinctively selected the "I'm over 18" button without thinking long before that was true?

    They don't ask verification as far as I know. It's the US gov so you're correct to be cautious. I didn't try in a "private" tab.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    No no no, I had to open the downloaded 'PDF' to my device, then open it with a hex editor, to discover it was actually in HTML format, to request my age and ID first.

    The page never outright even loaded, I just discovered that because I know how to use a hex editor. The page never loaded properly in either format, neither PDF nor HTML.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    What device, os, browser fennec, and addons?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I figured it out, it's apparently a bug in the Jerboa for Lemmy app. Jerboa sees PDF and tries to open my default PDF viewer rather than my web browser Fennec.

    When I copy the link and paste it directly in Fennec, it works as expected, but when I tap the link in Jerboa, it's blindly trying to open it with a PDF app, which gives the Invalid Format error.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    A MaxWest tablet, stock Android 11, but never signed into Google. No Chrome here, I used to use Firefox, until they started adopting AI tech, so now I use the more privacy focused fork, Fennec.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    It is a pdf link but there is an intercept script that does the age verification. Once you have said yes once, the PDF links then just directly lead to the PDFs.

    But I don't understand why you are promted for Google sign in, I tried on Vanadium and Firefox and there was no google stuff.

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