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by DavidBuchanan 2790 days ago
And yet, nobody has done the same for Twitter until now.

The difference is that twitter applies a series of operations to all uploaded image, stripping EXIF data, recompressing, etc., which would normally be difficult to work around.

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Did people do this back in the day? 4chan used to be totally fine with just uploading a jpeg concatenated with a zip, but I haven't seen this ICC profile trick before today.
Well, 4chan served you the original file, so you didn't need to evade image processing at all