Animated jpg

[This name sucks]

http://i4.ytimg.com/i/cri7brUBnwZ7CDM3We6mUw/1.jpg

How is this possible.

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And no its not a gif named something weird like test.jpg.gif.

[n0cturnal]

http://i.imgur.com/vdrPysy.png

It is just a renamed GIF.

[This name sucks]

So just renaming a file can get you past file type restriction...?

[n0cturnal]

So just renaming a file can get you past file type restriction...?

When it comes to image files yes, the current generation of browsers can load them even if it doesn't have the correct filetype name. The site with the restriction that you are trying to bypass might have something stopping this though.

[This name sucks]

Youtube normally doesn't allow animated files (GIF) to be used as avatars or anything.

But the image I linked was an animated gif renamed to be a jpg and then used as an avatar on youtube.

ytimg is youtube's image hosting site.

Being youtube (kind of a big deal) it seems like a huge oversight to allow something like this to circumvent the restriction.

[Milkshake86]

Youtube normally doesn't allow animated files (GIF) to be used as avatars or anything.

But the image I linked was an animated gif renamed to be a jpg and then used as an avatar on youtube.

ytimg is youtube's image hosting site.

Being youtube (kind of a big deal) it seems like a huge oversight to allow something like this to circumvent the restriction.

Not really, Youtube is a massive money sink for Google atm. Google was able to purchase or acquire youtube because it has huge issues breaking even, considering the amount of people using adblocking software generating 0 income for the site. Simply put they had a structure put in for a cost, it would cost more to maintain and fix every small detail as I see it from a dev standpoint if that renamed gif trick is working and within the file size limit /care.

[This name sucks]

Not really, Youtube is a massive money sink for Google atm. Google was able to purchase or acquire youtube because it has huge issues breaking even, considering the amount of people using adblocking software generating 0 income for the site. Simply put they had a structure put in for a cost, it would cost more to maintain and fix every small detail as I see it from a dev standpoint if that renamed gif trick is working and within the file size limit /care.

I thought youtube finally started to break even in 2012 after bleeding money for like 7 years prior to that.