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Thanks for the suggestion. We considered customizing the destination page, but we decided against it due to a big looming threat: an increasing number of sites can't be embedded. From a technical perspective, a site can block embedding by setting one HTTP response header (X-FRAME-OPTIONS) which is very easy to do.



This is one of the biggest problems for Genius.

Ex. http://genius.it/www.nytimes.com breaks vs. http://genius.it/www.wikipedia.org works fine.




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