Hmm, if you could point out a particular page that's doing that, and the name of the file that's getting downloaded, I'd appreciate that. It's probably something to do with flash, same as with the youtube thing, but I'd wanna confirm it's not a separate issue.
Okay, so I tested it on page 2 of the 'Music in Your Language' thread (
https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=489.msg42164#msg42164)
A download prompt came up for every video, and when I clicked 'confirm' it downloaded a .swf file for each video.
These were in the format, for example, Gsdp2zSCjY.swf, where the video linked here:
was concerned, so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x would give me
x.swf.
Seems to be that the unique identifying part of each for the embedded Youtube videos was encoded as a .swf file on my tablet, but I don't have the slightest idea why.
Clicking on the files just gave me a generic 'cannot open file' message, and I still couldn't open the videos (they showed up as blank spaces), plus I was spammed with download requests again. Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.
Okay, so I've also noticed that some of the images (such as
some flags in people's signatures, and weirdly every one of the formatting buttons for when you post a reply, showed up as generic 'image not found' pictures, but were still usable.
I don't have a clue why all this happened, but I assume it's some quirk of the particular brand of Android used on the Kindle Fire.
EDIT: After googling .swf files, they appear to be related to Flash. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF)
I'm assuming that embedded Youtube videos use Flash and the OS didn't like it, or misinterpreted them.