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10. Imgur is not Youtube

Sun Jul 6, 2025, 05:00 PM

Jul 6

I'm not sure what you're seeing (I don't use Chrome nor Windows), but fyi ...

- Imgur and Youtube are completely different sites.
- Imgur is usually used to host still images or pix with simple animations (animated gifs), but yeah, now videos too
- When I look at: https://imgur.com/a/H9mBlxD
I see a simple image that says "Downloading... 1/869" and "Keep this window open to continue"
But it is *NOT* starting a download. It's just a still picture that was saved to Imgur. It even has the
"Next >" button on the page to see the next image in the Imgur image browser.

I don't know for sure if this image was somehow doing nasty things to your computer, but I suspect not.

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YouTube downloading hundreds of files??!! [View all] silverweb Jul 5 OP

Sounds like you might be seeing "Smart downloads"..... walkingman Jul 5 #1

That's not it. silverweb Jul 5 #2

Have you tried another browser? Just to try and isolate if the problem is YouTube, browser, or the computer itself. walkingman Jul 5 #3

Oh, good idea! silverweb Jul 5 #4

Yup. It's the browser. silverweb Jul 5 #5

Welp, it didn't work. silverweb Jul 5 #6

Make sure you delete your cache, cookies, history in Chrome. Did you happen to add another extension walkingman Jul 5 #7

Your user profile canetoad Jul 5 #9

I'm OK with trying links canetoad Jul 5 #8

Whoa! That's weird!! silverweb Jul 6 #11

Good Idea canetoad Jul 6 #13

Imgur is not Youtube CloudWatcher Jul 6 #10

The imgur image was taken from a *screenshot* on YouTube. silverweb Jul 6 #12

Ah, sorry CloudWatcher Jul 6 #14