Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content • Hacker News Board

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by arprocter » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

93po wrote: post #403

arprocter wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They recently changed something - if you follow a link to an image it now loads their page containing the image, and not just the actual file Presumably this was done to show ads on the page

I've seen them do this in some capacity for like a decade

Strange - I'm pretty sure I used to be able to directly link to an image, and that would be the only thing that loaded (had to 'open image in new tab' after uploading to find the direct link)

Possibly they did different things for different IP blocks?

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by fullshark » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:22 PM UTC

survirtual wrote: post #397

coldpie wrote: post #296

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More like part 2,000,000. It's an unsolveable problem. To Imgur's credit, it lasted longer than I thought it would.

It is not unsolvable. People with the money, time, and luxury just are not capable of solving it, as they exist in ivory towers far away from real problems, and can not fathom investing in people outside their circles with solutions.

The solution is to keep building new image hosts that show user growth and then sell the company to a greater fool that thinks they can monetize that user base. Rinse and repeat.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by syngrog66 » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

rule of thumb: media sharing startups gladly host porn when they're early, small and growing. Then once they mature, get big enough, the Adults Take Over, they then ban the porn. Seen this sequence happen a dozen times from afar over decades.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by devnullbrain » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

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.

Free hosting for the masses of porn on the internet is a low interest rate phenomenon.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by Phelinofist » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:33 PM UTC

I actively avoid imgur anyway because of the insane amount of JS

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:33 PM UTC

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.

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by orthoxerox » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

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...

It's not that different from browsing HN on mobile.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by stalfosknight » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:38 PM UTC

Has no one at Imgur heard of Tumblr and what happened when they tried this? Why do they think this will turn out differently for them?

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by tinglymintyfrsh » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

Damn, they went full Insta.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by mysterydip » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

jandrese wrote: post #409

survirtual wrote: post #397

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It is not unsolvable. People with the money, time, and luxury just are not capable of solving it, as they exist in ivory towers far away from real problems, and can not fathom investing in people outside their circles with solutions.

So what you are saying is it is easily solvable as long as you have an infinite source of free money.

Heck, I'll solve it for half that much!