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by KomoD 884 days ago
> zedeus says the URLs reported are not even valid and don't work

I don't see him saying that.

He said

> A funny thing to note here is that the image link, which first points at nitter.it, is a /enc/ link which only gets created by Nitter if the instance admin enables base64 link encoding for media proxying. This is not enabled for nitter.net, so I know for a fact someone copied an image from another instance (presumably nitter.it), changed the domain, and sent a complaint to Njalla.

nitter.net returns images from tweets as something like "/pic/orig/media/DP5UreOXcAEz6EI.jpg"

another instance with "base64 link encoding for media proxying" returns images from tweets as "/pic/enc/bWVkaWEvRFA1VXJlT1hjQUV6NkVJLmpwZw=="

That just means whoever got the link went to another instance first, copied the path and replaced it with nitter.net

I tried this myself, I went to another nitter instance which had "base64 link encoding for media proxying", copied the link, replaced the domain with nitter.net and it loaded the image just fine.

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Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks!