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I honestly don't see an issue. if you're sharing links to images on imgur, you're denying them ad revenue and just leaching bandwidth. I'm all for adblockers, but complaining you can't direct link images is kinda...
I honestly don't see an issue. if you're sharing links to images on imgur, you're denying them ad revenue and just leaching bandwidth. I'm all for adblockers, but complaining you can't direct link images is kinda...
One of the problems is the comments on imgur. If you thought youtube was bad. Now imagine posting a picture of a sunset or a cute dog or whatever, your mom or 8 year old nephew or whoever clicks it and it's full of "look at the fucking sun!" or similar.
It's a status code. 3XX is redirection.
4XX is client error and 5XX is server error.
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> Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? To keep traffic "on premises", ie thwart competition. Just look at imgur: now it's sort of a micro reddit, with its own commenting system, categories, and so on.
If the start location and end location for a user are reddit, why go through the trouble to capture some portion of the middle traffic as well? That's the beauty of an aggregator, you prosper through other people's content by providing additional value, not by competing with it. Also, I don't think there's an expectation from reddit users to be able to store images on reddit so you wouldn't be adding much perceived v…
So you're a site with a major feature that (a) drives publishers to another site, and (b) drives viewers to the same site, even though (c) the content was created for your site. And now (d) that site is adding some of your core features. I guess I can't see how that isn't a blindingly obvious concern if you're running reddit.
I honestly don't see an issue. if you're sharing links to images on imgur, you're denying them ad revenue and just leaching bandwidth. I'm all for adblockers, but complaining you can't direct link images is kinda...
The creator of imgur (MrGrim on Reddit) has said on multiple occasions that hotlinking is acceptable way to use imgur: Four years ago - "I created imgur because the other image hosting sites forced you to see their ad-ridden pages (TinyPIC). I would never do the same to you. If you want to direct link to the image, then by all means do so."[1] Three years ago - "People linking to the page rather than the image is wha…
This pattern is inevitable. How is Imgur going to survive if it just serves up naked image links to all comers? The best way around this situation is to develop ways for web users to have their own hosting space for the images they wish to share. So long as we depend on other companies to do it for us for free, this is the pattern we'll keep seeing.
What is imgur's selling point?