>>2441760 Many times in the past, the link was taken down within the same day it was posted here. Within hours in a few cases.
People started using base64 to complicate scraping for "mega" links. The link would stay valid for over a week. Then someone would decode it for the idiots, despite people willing to tell them how to do it themselves. Boom, link went down.
This is why sites like f9 put filters between their links and the destination. That's another thing. When you click through, a referral from what site you came from is sent unless you have do not track settings and adblockers set up. When someone copy-pastes a link from base64 to the web address bar, that data isn't sent regardless. Why's that relevant? Because mega might alert the owner of the archive that they're seeing unusual activity and deactivate the link for a few hours if the bandwidth use was really high. This'd be another reason the links go dead and stay dead.
Best practice; Base64, and new archive. Or don't. I'm not a cop.
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