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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 account42 »

kroltan wrote: post #213
chrisan wrote: post #203

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> 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"…

I get the redirect on my phone but not on desktop browsers.

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Post by nemacol »

fknorangesite wrote: post #308
sizzle wrote: post #240

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I mean the site is ad infested and slow as hell to load, such a fall from their former grace when they were seen as an internet darling next to photobucket type sites when options for uploading and hotlinking were limited due to bandwidth constraints. I think Reddit started hosting their own content or whatever the redgif site is seems to have taken over Imgur for a while now and the images/vids load lightning fast i…

> whatever the redgif site is People were uploading lots of porn to gfycat, so the gfycat people basically cloned themselves and split the adult content off onto another domain in order to keep it separate.

This strikes me as the obvious solution to me.

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Post by account42 »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #220
Joker_vD wrote: post #219

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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.

IMO that along with the Referer header is a mistake or at least the browser should allow you to overwrite that.

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Post by leshenka »

ceejayoz wrote: post #281
cynicalsecurity wrote: post #279

What's the problem with NSFW? Why discriminate and demonize this kind of content? > We don't want to create a bad experience for someone that might stumble across explicit images, nor is it in our company ethos to support explicit content, so some lascivious or sexualized posts are not allowed. Hey Imgur! By banning NSFT you've create a bad experience for me and now I'm stumbled. Happy?

> What's the problem with NSFW? Why discriminate and demonize this kind of content? The usual answer is that advertisers don't want their ads appearing next to it.

how about showing nsfw ads next to nsfw content?

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Post by account42 »

LinAGKar wrote: post #147
waboremo wrote: post #15

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Reddit has also recently announced moves in regards to NSFW content[1] by limiting data access to mature content more aggressively than they currently do. It seems like an area a lot of platforms are struggling with and seem to opt for a complete ban. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_r...

And already now they force you to log in to an account to view NSFW content, unless you go to old.reddit.com.

Twitter does this too - you need an account in their frontent but the content is still accessible via API or whatever the yt-dlp ends up using.

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Post by dougmwne »

saurik wrote: post #235
dougmwne wrote: post #155

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And it'll all be thanks to tightening monetary policy! Which is lighthearted, but not a joke. Economic theory says that the economic cycle helps to free up misallocated resources.

Isn't it also what misallocated those resources in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to never encourage people to just throw money away on subsidized BS business models that seem to mostly empower monopolies whose main barrier to entry is "has so much cash they can put any business that is wasting time trying to have revenue out of its misery"?

The way the theory goes, people need to be encouraged to take risks. To gamble it all on a crazy new business idea that might not work out at all. Risk is the source of all new value. You can do this by making money very cheap and giving very few other otherlets for risk-free dividends.

People will create all manner of crazy businesses. Some will be duds, some will be frauds, and some will be the future. Then to sort out which is which, you have to turn off the flood of money.

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Post by leshenka »

adad95 wrote: post #97

With this change and Reddit removing NSFW content from the API, at the same time. I think both sites will be way less used. And another competitor will appear quickly. Look like they want became irrelevant very quickly. Tumblr and Only Fans tried and falied. one became forgotten and the other had to say sorry was a mistake.

> removing NSFW content from the API

Like at all or just for anonymous requests?

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Post by fknorangesite »

midoridensha wrote: post #105
mjr00 wrote: post #13

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You have to wonder how long that's going to last, though, as Reddit is in the same situation of quietly tolerating pornographic content while not explicitly promoting it. The worst possible outcome for Reddit is that this move shines light on how many porn communities exist on reddit, which causes media scrutiny, which causes advertisers to bail or threaten to bail, which causes Reddit to ban NSFW subreddits, which s…

>which spells the end of Reddit. This would probably be a good thing for the world, except for the loss of the NSFW subreddits. All the "normal" subreddits are cesspools.

> All the "normal" subreddits are cesspools.

How dare you say this about my /r/DaystromInstitute

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Post by bequanna »

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.

By which metric?

Broadly, the biggest pushes have been to limit exposure of highly-sexualized content to those 18+.

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