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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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