[klelatti]

So FB harms their UK business and gets a big fine. UK FB goes without GIFs - not a huge deal!

[danuker]

> without GIFs

I'd say they're not GIFs, they're embedded mini-websites with their own tracking cookies and JS and whatnot. If only they were GIFs.

[klelatti]

Good point!

[viro]

thats not how gifs work ffs

[Nextgrid]

Giphy is much more than a GIF though. Here's a link for example: https://media0.giphy.com/media/mlvseq9yvZhba/giphy.gif

If you load it in a browser you get an entire HTML page full of spyware - it is not a GIF. They're detecting the user agent and deciding whether to send spyware or not - only curl'ing the link gives you the raw GIF by the looks of it.