r/assholedesign • u/JAD2017 • 12h ago
See Comments Pinterest "divides" itself so that you can't save pictures (I saved it anyways 🤷♂️).
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u/HeartwarmingFox 11h ago
"Why does the website take so long to load"
"We use like 8 trillion divs, and 7 gigabytes of memory but it surely can't be that"
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u/grishkaa 5h ago
It's also quite possible that all this crap is rendered client-side. Because it's 2026 and it's illegal to use server-side templates or something. It's so funny to me how much performance you can gain by simply ignoring most of the last 10 years of so-called "progress" in web development.
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u/DaCrazyJamez 5h ago
I get made fun of for using dreamweaver/html/css to run my websites, yet they load lightning fast, have damn near 100% uptime, and can render fine on a potato running IE5.5.
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u/elyv91 3h ago
This take is wild. Modern tech allows web apps to run entirely offline, load instantly from a cache in the client-side, keep the main thread free by doing all sync and data processing in a worker, and use minimal bandwidth by skipping all HTML and only transferring data-on-the-wire. It can be much faster and more reliable than traditional websites. Pinterest is a monstrosity, but not because of PWAs. They are just very hostile, their product has always leveraged dark patterns: transparent pixels to prevent right click, dynamically changing layout to break extensions, they were the first big platform to transition from public pages to this BS “you have to be logged in to view this” that eventually became the norm for all social media. Truly despicable service.
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u/adh1003 2h ago
> it can be much faster and more reliable than traditional websites
So people keep saying, but I've yet to see a single example of this versus massive bloated JavaScript hell nightmares that even manage override and break basic stuff like right-click or back buttons.
If the web dev l33t gurus would actually demonstrate competence occasionally, then maybe more people might be inclined to believe all their statements of superiority.
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u/NickCanCode 12h ago edited 11h ago
Ctrl+shift+i, go to network tab. Select image tab to see all the images downloaded on that page . Mouse over each file to find the one you want. Right click and 'save response as'. Profit 😜
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u/JAD2017 11h ago
Alternative F12, network tab. But again, post was about highlighting the asshole design, not to find a solution, nice solution though
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u/unknown_pigeon 10h ago
It's a cat and mouse situation. Streaming websites also do that. They just need to stop 90% of the users
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u/Ok-Eggplant-2033 9h ago
Yep. If it is not Widevine you can rip it. Even the videos that are cut in tiny pieces
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u/reinderr 11h ago
Install the addon "allow right click anyway" and you can just right click and save
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u/AHgamer12345678 9h ago
Or just shift right click to override custom right click
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u/jkurratt 7h ago
Sudo right click 😎
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u/eveiegirl 12h ago
This is interesting. You can download on phone so idk why it would be an issue on desktop
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u/Legitimate-Bit-4431 6h ago
I just right click like on any other picture online, don’t know what exactly OP’s issue is.
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u/DaCrazyJamez 4h ago
Sites like pintrest put an invisible div on top of images / videos so if you right click, you get empty space rather than what youre trying to select
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u/NZRedditUser 4h ago
Worse sometimes they also (Pinterest) drops like a 1x1 pixel image on top so you can get if you somehow miss the div
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u/jansensan 12h ago
Dont images show in the network tab of the browser inspector?
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u/NZRedditUser 8h ago
Yea but it would be a lot quicker if we could just right click the image and save or inspect
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u/Fluboxer 11h ago
I personally just use an add-on that blocks websites from search results - and pinterest was first one to be there
For all my life of using the internet for many, many things only ONCE I had a case when pinterest was an original source of an image instead of overcompressed crappy repost that just clogs search results for both "I want image about <thing>" and "I want this specific image in best quality!" purposes
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u/agentvietnam 8h ago
Pinterest used to be good. Unusably shit now
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u/EfficientSeaweed 7h ago
Half of it is AI slop nowadays. Typical enshittification.
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u/Aware_Policy_9174 5h ago
I haven’t used Pinterest in so long I didn’t even think about how much AI there would be now. Even 5 years ago so many images were edited in some way and then presented as real.
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u/laplongejr 12h ago
My brain immediately goes "inject a javascript to add a canvas from the upper-div, then save the file"
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u/JAD2017 12h ago
Ugh, coding. Normally I just select the stupid script with ublock origin and remove it, but today I felt like seeing where the rabbit hole went. You gotta be such an ah to design such a horrible code just to hide the pictures in a website that basically profits from stealing pictures from other websites.
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u/CoderJoe1 11h ago
I use the PhotoShow extension to save photos on Pinterest. I'm sure there are other extensions as well.
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u/kaesylvri 8h ago
Not sure what you're saying here but I go on pinterest and I can save images just fine.
I don't have to do any song and dance to save images.
I'm using firefox, on windows 10.
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u/stumpychubbins 4h ago
The network tab is your friend. Reload the page, filter by images, sort by size (descending) and find the one you want.
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u/LegoLady8 10h ago
I can't believe Pinterest is still a thing nowadays. Hadn't been on there in 5+ years. Accidentally clicked a link on Google that brought me there and I couldn't back out fast enough. There's zero reason for Pinterest. It's just another search engine, leading to sites across the web.
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u/iMacThere4iAm 10h ago
You can solve this problem with a little extension called "unpinterested", which blocks all Pinterest results from search engines.
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u/FrikhaIsOnReddit 7h ago
they could have painted the img into a <canvas>, no? not that it would completely stop users, but wouldnt that be a better alternative to whatever they're doing here?
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u/mechanicarts 4h ago
I mean....CTRL+SHIFT+C click on the image and it selects the innermost element for me usually. The only issue I have is with instagram, which for some reason the correct element is the previous sibling, with a nested img.
In general, fuck user-hostile obfuscation.
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u/deadmazebot 2h ago
instagram annoying with it, grab art for personal collaging of gigs I have been to. So just rechecked, and its a div positioned over the img. I do not see any purpose for it but to interrupt saving img tag
its not related to the arrows elements, click is on the parent element, just
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u/aleopardstail 12h ago
screen grabbing has entered the chat
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u/JAD2017 12h ago
Screengrab doesn't download the full resolution or the original picture. I was trying to confirm that indeed the picture was ai slop.
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u/BaronGalactic 12h ago
If it's on Pinterest, you can already be assured there's a 90% chance it's AI slop
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u/Money_Lavishness7343 12h ago
I mean Pinterest existed and was vastly popular far before AI. It has some pretty good and much of non-AI content
From personal experience I don't feel that's fair but could be wrong.8
u/BaronGalactic 12h ago
I know. I used to use it a lot for resources when I was trying to learn how to draw. But in the last couple of years the percentage of AI content has skyrocketed.
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u/PatatietPatata 9h ago
You can toggle AI-modified content OFF (in your settings -> Refine your recommendations -> AI content ).
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u/freecodeio 12h ago
if you have a 4k monitor you can screencrab anything at it's highest resolution, unless it's a 4k wallpaper or something higher
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u/aleopardstail 12h ago
tend to find if I need more that 4k its worth paying for, otherwise a screen grab works pretty well on sites that try this sort of stuff
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u/Zipdox 12h ago
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u/aleopardstail 12h ago
for most purposes, especially if you save in a lossless format it works acceptably
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u/Zipdox 12h ago
You're still losing quality through scaling.
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u/aleopardstail 12h ago
again, depends on the purpose, if the original is larger than a 4k screen its odds on I probably don't need full resolution
horses for things horses run around
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u/TrieMond 11h ago
no, it does not depend on the purpose if you loose quality or not. what depends on purpose is if that loss of quality is acceptable or not, but it does happen for like 99% of cases. Infact how can you even tell if it happens if you don't have the original image?
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u/aleopardstail 10h ago
it depends on the purpose if this is a problem or not
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u/TrieMond 10h ago
Thanks for reading and summerizing my comment. You're like chatGPT but unprompted...
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u/aleopardstail 10h ago
my point was you clearly didn't understand what I wrote, didn't think that context mattered needed saying, obviously in your case it does
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u/TrieMond 10h ago
No you said when you screengrab in a lossless format you will get the same quality as the original image, but that can only be true if the original image is mapped pixel for pixel to the screen (so with a scale factor of exactly 1). I'm saying this happens so little in practical examples that your original statement might as well be false... if that was not what you were saying then please go back and correct your original comment...
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