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		datameta on Oct 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenge... I imagine it is quite easy to reassemble a broken link with some extra whitespace or random characters (unless you really scramble it which makes the process of manually "decoding" tedious). At that point you might as well automate the process and use base64

yellow_lead on Oct 26, 2019 [–]

This one. I believe I tried that but they are able to reconstruct them to some extent at least with trivial broken-ness

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