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Wes big-brained the videos for his new site by reverse engineering the streaming protocol from a popular social platform It works by streaming the M3U8 file into Media Chrome

Anton Stoychev

@stoychev.dev

Wait isn't this just a playlist file? You still need to host the video files somewhere, no?

2/6/25, 7:55 pm0 reposts1 like

Wes Bos

@wesbos.com

2 June 2025

nope - the playlist file also points to the CDN videos for the social network

luke187.bsky.social

@luke187.bsky.social

3 June 2025

Is that relevant for the GDPR then? As the CDN logs access?

Wes Bos

@wesbos.com

3 June 2025

Probably, thankfully I’m Canadian

Anton Stoychev

@stoychev.dev

2 June 2025

Hahaha. Love it! I mean it feels "the best kind of hacky", the natural web power I felt when I was little and I could make buttons show in growse red and blue in Dreamweaver.