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		noduerme on Jan 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Request your personal information Man, talk about a flashback. I remember DownThemAll. That was the way to scrape images off porn sites, back when porn sites only had images.

ivanmontillam on Jan 25, 2022 | [–]

I remember creating a custom crawler in Delphi when images were behind LinkBucks ads.

I must have made someone rich back then.

bobsmooth on Jan 25, 2022 | [–]

That's mainly what I've been using it for for the past decade lol.

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