Removing https or hotlinking does not really change a thing. Even your smartphone's browser does not care about it, so why would a lawyer or some law enforcement agency being stopped by that? I can't remember the last time I entered
https:// There is a way that is being used by other sites to hide/encrypt and decrypt URLs, it's called
base64. This is often used in Reddit links that are not supposed to be found. It's harmles, just a little Enigma machine. It can be used to turn text into random characters - and back (at the top you can select Encode/Decode). Certainly not stopping FBI (
), but more safe than just removing parts of an URL or changing Pixeldrain to Pixeldr@in. If Google can detect and correct those minor spelling mistakes ("Did you mean..."), again, LEOs or lawyers can do it, too.
The result would be something like this:
VGhpcyBpcyBhIGdyZWF0IHdheSBvZiBvYnNjdXJpbmcgbGlua3MgYW5kIG1ha2UgdGhlbSB0b3VnaCB0byBmaW5kIG91dCE=
Try and decode