/kbin meta @kbin.social Ohwatafool @kbin.social 2y ago

I keep getting this .m3u8 download whenever I open the homepage? What is it?

/kbin meta @kbin.social Ohwatafool @kbin.social 2y ago

What is this this .m3u8 file that keeps downloading every time I open the kbin homepage on firefox?

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Do you have auto media preview on? That might be why it's grabbing that playlist.
- Yes I do! I’ll try disabling that and see what happens when I’m back at the office tomorrow
  
  kbinning at the office, eh?
I'm getting the same thing, also Firefox 114.0.1 (64-bit) Windows 11.

Edit: just let Firefox update to 114.0.2 (64-bit) and same thing.
Do you have some sort of playlist/media downloading add-on enabled on Firefox? Because that is what the extension listed is for.

I'm using Firefox as well and don't get that, the next thing I would look at is a possible malware infection.

Edit: changed extension to add-on. I've got chrome on the brain at the moment.
- .m3u8 is a file format for video streams. It works like a playlist, it's a file that defines a collection of individual video files, each being one small part of the stream.
  
  m3u8's can't be played natively by a browser, and if the OP has enabled autoplay media, kbin is probably directing the browser to that URL, the browser can't play it in-tab, so it downloads it as a file instead.
  
  Quirky little bug you found there OP. Codeberg would love to know.
  
  There's another post about this that has a codeberg issue placed.
  
  https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/446
  
  Sorry, how does one go about letting Codeberg know?
- Actually, it just did it again as I was scrolling through All...anytime this post about the debris field near the titanic loads, it downloads the file. I'll search through my firefox settings and see what I can see.
  
  youre not alone... only happens when kbin loads that specific media
  
  That is very strange, does explain why I'm not seeing this issue though. I have most of the us/generic news magazines blocked.
  
  I'm not a kbin developer or web developer, but this issue has my curiosity piqued.
  
  Do you get it when you go to the CBS news site for the story itself? Maybe it's something to do with the instance itself or a bug in the link?
  
  Getting the same exact thing, including in the above thread.
- I don't believe so. The only extensions I have are bitwarden, multi-containers, uBlock, and Dark reader. It actually has stopped now after I logged out of Kbin and then back in. I suppose I'll associate it with some sort of user error, because I don't see the problem being posted aside from me. Thanks for the suggestions
It's in a Firefox browser btw. Not sure if that makes any difference.

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