I have tried these other services gorillapool link but some…
I have tried these other services gorillapool link but sometimes they don’t work and so far whatsonchain has worked longest and more reliably. I put this link on NFC chips so o can’t change it after a person purchased the CD so it needs to work longest and more term
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Yep... relying on the indexers can be a bit of a pain. It's 3rd party access to the blockchain... and not resilient like the p2p, small-world network Bitcoin is designed to offer.
Hopefully modern browsers will one day implement the BCAT (B://) protocol, or similar, like _unwriter had done with the Bottle browser. I think using that protocol, with direct links to content, I don't think you even need an indexer to grab stuff on-chain. Indexers I think are only required for searching. Surprised somebody hasn't built a Chrome extension to handle this...