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Re: Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service

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As someone who has never hosted an image service like this, what actions do you have to take to stop "bad" people from using your service? For example, uploading inappropriate / illegal / violent images.

I developed a website for the university I attend that anyone can upload photographs of older exams for each course. In order to solve the image content problem the system checks every uploaded image with a 3rd party image recognition API[1] before saving it. Works pretty good so far!

[1]https://clarifai.com/

Re: Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service

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It can't be open like that "just use our URL" because it will bring many free-riders and shutdown your server.

But it also can't be a closed system with private keys and all that, because the hassle is too enormous -- the user will need a server to get the key for each image and so on.

I have the impression that all services of this kind suffer from the above dual-problem.

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