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Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by Too » Sat, May 28, 2016, 12:04 PM UTC

transpy wrote: post #339

joshdickson wrote: post #283

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"Daring Fireball does it" has to be the worst possible comparison imaginable. Gruber has super differentiated, high editorial value content that folks will pay a premium to put their message next to. Imgur is about as far away from that as possible. They have to try to make money, it's crazy to sit here and think you know better than they do on this. Don't you think if they could make enough money doing what you thin…

I wish an image service existed that did some image recognition on the picture and provided you with relevant, but subtle 'Learn more about this thing' links.

Oh yes. I run a image hosting service and adsense cant serve any relevant ads because the page hardly contains any text. The only text they identify is 'image hosting' and start serving ads to competitors T_T. My service has more information about user interest though based on topics and other user interactions etc but there is no way to forward these hints to adsense :(

Any tips on ad providers that support more explicit choice of topic per page load?

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 28, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

kelukelugames wrote: post #390

TeMPOraL wrote: post #343

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Some material on the subject: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word...

That's a lot of salt. I can't take seriously people who take tumblr seriously. Maybe I'm lucky.

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Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by nostrebored » Tue, May 31, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC

onli wrote: post #310

sbarre wrote: post #263

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So you're saying if it's not on that website it's not valid? Come on.. If I see a URL that ends in JPG, my understanding is that I am about to load an image. If the site then shows me a page full of ads with my image somewhere on there, that's exactly what you described . The site is tricking me into doing something that is to their benefit and to my detriment. Showing me a URL that looks like a link to an image is a…

One last try. I'll stop then. If you are really arguing that you are inherently more likely to click on the direct link, and it is this click impulse that is used to manipulate you, and that going to a page containing that image plus ads instead is the big negative outcome, then I understand why it is a dark pattern for you. I did not see that direct link have a higher affordance (that might stretch the term a bit to…

"Showing another page" is not a manipulation? So the redirects of yore when you would change the link-text to a URL that does not match the link-URL is not a manipulation? That is effectively what imgur does.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by Aoyagi » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 11:45 AM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #300

Aoyagi wrote: post #138

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Well, their "gifv" "innovation" was enough for me to stop using them completely.

The ability to host a silent webm and then link to either gif version or webm version is something you find negative? My only annoyance there is that sometimes the embed bugs out a bit, but that's mostly firefox's fault.

No, the fact that they put it as if it was their invention, and the fact that linking imgur.com/XXX.webm redirects to script-ridden ".gifv" nonsense is what I find annoying.