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Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by capableweb »

chrisan wrote: post #203
segasaturn wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imgur has been lousy for a while, redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site. They've been due to be replaced for a while but this will definitely accelerate that. Also, the irony of the Tumblr comparison is that Tumblr has become my default social image hosting provider now that they allow soft porn and have a paid ad-free subscription. The tables have turned!

> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this happen. Even copying an image link from their homepage at the time of this post works as expected https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg (some starwars cartoon) or https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 (some cat with a pineapple)

The problem is not the copying, it's a redirect that happens if someone hasn't seen the page image before, they get redirected from the direct image to the page instead.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

chrisan wrote: post #203
segasaturn wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imgur has been lousy for a while, redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site. They've been due to be replaced for a while but this will definitely accelerate that. Also, the irony of the Tumblr comparison is that Tumblr has become my default social image hosting provider now that they allow soft porn and have a paid ad-free subscription. The tables have turned!

> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this happen. Even copying an image link from their homepage at the time of this post works as expected https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg (some starwars cartoon) or https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 (some cat with a pineapple)

Even the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by kroltan »

chrisan wrote: post #203
segasaturn wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imgur has been lousy for a while, redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site. They've been due to be replaced for a while but this will definitely accelerate that. Also, the irony of the Tumblr comparison is that Tumblr has become my default social image hosting provider now that they allow soft porn and have a paid ad-free subscription. The tables have turned!

> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this happen. Even copying an image link from their homepage at the time of this post works as expected https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg (some starwars cartoon) or https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 (some cat with a pineapple)

Maybe you're stuck in some A/B control group type deal, because the same happens to me and the handful of people I've seen accessing imgur while screensharing.

It's not a new development, I believe this has been the case since at least 2016.

If visiting the page directly, we get served a HTML document with a billion resources that loads the image with a comment section beneath it, and includes a sidebar of "related" and "newest in most viral" content.

Possibly even advertisements, but I wouldn't know, as a good friend doesn't let friends browse the internet without an ad blocker.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by JBiserkov »

user- wrote: post #77
theanti9 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, Reddit's new limits are about 3rd party use of their data/APIs. As a regular user, it doesn't really change anything (unless you consume Reddit NSFW content exclusively through a 3rd party app, I guess), so a pretty different case than Imgur's change here, which fundamentally shifts their user-base.

> As a regular user, it doesn't really change anything It absolutely does. There is tons of normal content that is tagged as NSFW for various non pornogrpahic reasons, and consdering 'regular users' includes the millions of people that use apollo, Rif, etc , thats a huge amount of the user base negatively effected.

Indeed! Just one example in /r/Diablo_2_Resurrected/ screenshots of very good, very rare items are marked NSFW because they're considered "disgustingly good" and because having to do an extra step to reveal the item provides a "rush" similar to gambling.

I often use spoiler formatting for comedic effect, etc.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by kgbcia »

mjr00 wrote: post #5

Tumblr 2.0 incoming? It's a not-so-unspoken fact that a lot of social media platforms are popular because they have tons of pornography. Reddit, Twitter, OnlyFans (more openly) and (until now) Imgur all have massive communities around explicit content. Even Twitch and YouTube are hugely successful as ways for OnlyFans creators to drive users to their explicit content. Going to be very interesting to see if imgur drop…

I find peace in text based forums such as this one. There is no chance of me encountering any explicit images.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by TeMPOraL »

tido99 wrote: post #103
Sakos wrote: post #70

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This obsession with banning sexual content is bizarre to me. "It's because payment processors yada yada", I don't care. It's fucking weird and unnecessary and tiring. We all want porn. Why does a single culture get to push its insane puritanical values on all of us?

Which "single culture" is that? I disagree with censorship and morality policing as much as you seem to but opposition to porn is the norm worldwide across nearly every culture. A 2019 Gallup poll found that 61% of American respondents believed pornography was "morally unacceptable." That's nearly twice the share that thought smoking marijuana was immoral, and higher than abortion. Somewhere around half of American w…

> Which "single culture" is that?

Obviously, USA-ian. The poll you quoted and linked deals with what Americans think, which is kind of reinforcing GP's point: the current treatment of pornography around the world, especially on the Internet, is in large part a US protestant/puritan cultural export.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by ThatMedicIsASpy »

shmde wrote: post #95
mylasttour wrote: post #8

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It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.

Reddit NSFW communities have already started their mass migration to redgif.

redgifs is the porn section of gfycat (old links redirect to redgifs)

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

yreg wrote: post #174

How 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...

It was cynical from the beginning: the author made the same post on Digg also, it just didn't take off there.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by Joker_vD »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #212
chrisan wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this happen. Even copying an image link from their homepage at the time of this post works as expected https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg (some starwars cartoon) or https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 (some cat with a pineapple)

Even the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.

Wait, what? How do they even distinguish those cases?

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

Joker_vD wrote: post #219
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.

Wait, what? How do they even distinguish those cases?

The Accept header tells you whether the browser is expecting a web page or an image.
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