Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point.
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
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#22They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Have you tried https://youpic.com/ ?
It is decentralized and open source.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about imgur.com?
Imgur requires you to provide a valid mobile number in order to create an account.
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#25They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
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#27They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Another entry for the hall of fame is Quora.
Someone should make a bugmenot browser extension...
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#28How accurate is the belief that logged-in eyeballs are profitable, but logged-out ones aren't?