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Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
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#172>No content that condones illegal ... activity
How does that work? Illegal where I live, illegal where they are or illegal anywhere?
Further if I'm pro abortion, is that condoning 'illegal activity'? What about smoking weed, which is illegal in certain states but legal in others. If I talk about crossing the road not at a crossing which is legal in my country, would that be banned? Do I now need to read up on US business law to find out where they're incorporated and or where the servers are sited to find the applicable state to then find the applicable laws? Are their moderators also going to be trained to this standard?
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#173Imgur will also be deleting images that aren't associated with a user account. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/
This is going to end up being a new Photobucket situation... hopefully Archive Team can try and figure out what images are at risk, especially if they're linked from forum threads and the like, and make sure they're in the Wayback Machine.
This might be naive, but couldn't they just hand over the images they want to get rid of to Archive?
Anyway, a good trigger to make a donation I guess.
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#174How far have we come from "My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck."[0]
I suppose it has lasted longer than anyone expected.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
>it directly targets what was previously the primary strength of the site, easy and accountless uploads with only a few clicks. I stopped using imgur several years ago precisely because I couldn't upload anything easily, account or no account. Mobile in particular couldn't upload period, the feature(?) simply wasn't even there. I've since moved on to using Discord, specifically a private "server" I made for the purpo…
May I ask what you use instead? I frequently use Imgur because of its built in support in various tools such as Greenshot.
Like I said, I just use Discord for image hosting now.
I can upload by just pasting into the client, and it works anywhere Discord works. I can access images from anywhere by using/sharing the direct links.
If I can easily and simply upload and access images, that's all I want out of an image hoster. Everything else is signal noise.
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#176You'd think capitalism would lead platforms to support porn.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
We don't know who the person was. We have no interest in forensically doxxing them. The person stands in as a proxy for any person. Neither the person's life, livelihood, reputation, nor dignity are tarnished in any way by the posting of this image. No person has the "right" to not be photographed in public. There is no evidence the posting of this photo resulted in the financial gain of the poster. Where there is no…
"No person has the "right" to not be photographed in public." Maybe in your country, not mine.
yeah, that'll be another real problem eventually...
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#178I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some of the most hateful replies I’ve ever seen. You report it but it stays there.
Imgur was wonderful as a stable image host that didn't mandate accounts and allowed hotlinking. Just open the site and drag the file.
I couldn't care less about their discussions. I remember some years ago taking a look there and it was super eerie, because the people where discussing images posted to reddit without having any context whatsoever.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm trying to take the most charitable interpretation possible instead of assuming malice on the part of reddit, but it's difficult to interpret it any other way than they have decided to kill 3rd party clients and not be upfront about their intentions. It wouldn't be so difficult to swallow if the official mobile app was high quality, but it isn't. There are major UX issues with the official app that haven't been fi…
They're a huge company, they could easily acquire five of the third party apps, add ads and keep the developers on payroll to maintain the apps. Banning apps that don't show ads of course.
A main reason people use those apps is to avoid ads. Also to avoid the reddit company's decisions about how stuff should work.
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#180Imgur stopped existing in 2021 when it was sold to Medialab AI. Medialab also own kik and whisper, genius and worldstarhiphop. That's the cause for these changes.
Isn't worldstar full of controversial content, like streetfights?