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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 saurik »

red_admiral wrote: post #239

I wonder what triggered this - legislation? Their payment processor? The ad network they get their revenue from? In my experience, this kind of change happens much more often for money reasons than for moral reasons. I think Tumblr's TOS change happened because their credit card processor became uncomfortable at them being essentially "in the porn business" - and indeed, seeing how much smaller Tumblr's business was…

> I think Tumblr's TOS change happened because...

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/16/did-banning-porn-make-tumbl...

> Porn was banned from Tumblr soon after the social network was removed from Apple’s App Store. Child pornography was found on the site, one consequence of the site’s relaxed content moderation approach. Instead of banning specific sites with child pornography, all not-safe-for-work content was banned.

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Post by Tade0 »

midoridensha wrote: post #188
voidhorse wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amen. Sex is bad but violence and the weekly mass shooting circuit are great and good for the kids. God bless America.

As another poster pointed out, it's not just the US, though with the US's economic dominance it's a huge factor. China and middle eastern nations don't like sexual content either. Basically, the governments in these places want you to concentrate on the state-sanctioned religion instead of relieving your biological urges with porn. So in the middle east, they want you thinking about Islam all day long. In the US, the…

> I'm pretty surprised actually that Russia hasn't cracked down on porn yet.

That's just not how Russia rolls. Simple things like low fuel prices, alcohol and porn are what prevents the population from complaining.

Russians highly value internal peace and will not actively go against anything that helps to secure it.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by ziml77 »

lnauta wrote: post #191

Wow, I remember reading the post of the creator of imgur that he made it specifically for reddit use. Then at some point they made it into this social platform and removed directly linking to images (or at least made it quite hard). Now this, interesting to see a site from day 1 coming up and (probably) going down.

I don't know if any evidence exists anymore to properly back this up, but I've heard that the creator first went to Digg with the same claim about making it for them.

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Post by sizzle »

deminature wrote: post #81
tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #64

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I think that's intentional. They clearly want to kill those apps because they don't generate ad revenue. Those apps will now also have to move to a subscription-only model because the APIs will be paid, as the Apollo dev confirmed.

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…

I hate when I’m hovering my thumb on a comment for a millisecond when scrolling the comments sections and accidentally collapsing a thread I’m reading, how can they not test their app with users to catch these simple usability issues?

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Post by sizzle »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #79
atleastoptimal wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sexual instinct has been the hidden drive for almost every major adoption of any new service/social media platform. Whether its porn or hookups, young people be horny, and young people are always the necessary early adopters of any new platform.

As we all know, Microsoft Windows got popular because of sexy Bill Gates: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/teen-beat/

Wow how am I seeing this for the first time. This is great hah

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Post by sizzle »

asdfman123 wrote: post #140
atleastoptimal wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sexual instinct has been the hidden drive for almost every major adoption of any new service/social media platform. Whether its porn or hookups, young people be horny, and young people are always the necessary early adopters of any new platform.

I feel like this is the secret reason why Mark Zuckerberg thought VR would be such a hit, which makes me think more about Mark Zuckerberg the person than I’d like.

I’m sure Snapchat is foaming at the mouth to get this Metaverse SnapVR sexting chat app ready to go to dominate the market fueled by raging hormones.

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Post by Mindwipe »

lozenge wrote: post #170
deminature wrote: post #81

Earlier 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.

The last time they did that they managed to wreck it so badly in six weeks that it's userbase imploded.

Reddit's management simply have awful UI instincts.

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Post by master-lincoln »

armchairhacker wrote: post #76
theanti9 wrote: post #26

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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.

It's a problem on mobile, because old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered and there isn't uBlock for iOS. The go-to Reddit app for iOS is Apollo, and they're going to be affected. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...

easy fix: switch to Android, a platform that allows users to chose what they want to do with the hardware they bought.

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Post by causi »

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…

Frankly I'm surprised they haven't dropped off already. I revisited them recently and it's now 90% self-fellating political posts.

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Post by achenet »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #87

The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.

living in a midsize French city, this has not at all been my experience. Could be due to sampling bias (I'm basing this off of people I know, who are probably not representative of the population as a whole), but most people here seem pretty open sexually.
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