Yeah its because of their download intercept, the download of the PDF doesn’t happen unless you have the cookie saved. So the link is to a PDF, but they check if you are authorized to download. You are getting an HTML because a normal desktop browser would present the choice buttons to save an approval cookie.
I’ve ultimately narrowed it down to a bug in the Jerboa for Lemmy app itself. I filed a bug report earlier to the Jerboa community, if you care to give it a read-over…
Yeah its because of their download intercept, the download of the PDF doesn’t happen unless you have the cookie saved. So the link is to a PDF, but they check if you are authorized to download. You are getting an HTML because a normal desktop browser would present the choice buttons to save an approval cookie.
I’ve ultimately narrowed it down to a bug in the Jerboa for Lemmy app itself. I filed a bug report earlier to the Jerboa community, if you care to give it a read-over…
https://lemmy.world/post/42576064
Here’s what the link coverts to if you don’t have the cookie agreement already. You coukd paste that in your bug report if that helps https://www.justice.gov/age-verify?destination=%2Fepstein%2Ffiles%2FDataSet+9%2FEFTA01249734.pdf