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They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
It takes a couple of hours to write code to handle exif rotations.
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Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.
Pinterest manages to do something horribly stupid and kind of abusive that I usually associates with adult sites ads: show you a preview of something that gets your interest, if you click to get access to it put you through a maze of forms and links all promising the result you asked for at the end, and then when you get to it they don't deliver and instead show other stuff you might like but really you don't because…
I plan to release the image extraction module in a separate extension, so you can just click on the page area with the image, and it opens the image in a new tab. This way you will not need to do a reverse image search to get to the image, or manually look for it in the page source.
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There's also https://pixelfed.org It is decentralized and open source.
Never heard of this and love the idea. Thanks for sharing, will check it out.
I loved the idea too, Mastodon is somewhat limited and if we can get more alternatives all the better.
My guess is that it's to put up an obstacle against crawlers and perhaps also lower the cost of outbound traffic?
More likely it is to be able to create more complete visitor profiles and provide more value to advertisers.
I think where they're heading is to monetise reach, so for anyone posting they will have to boost the post for it to go out to N number of potential user feeds based on how much they pay, same as with Facebook.
They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
This just sounds like an excuse to yourself. It’s not hard to deal with this just strip out the EXIF data and bake the rotation into your images on upload. Problem solved, though I don’t know your experience level.
Odd, private firefox search and opened https://www.instagram.com/kimkardashian/ just fine. I know, dumb example.
Try scrolling down a fair bit and you will see it. (happened to me on second "loading" of the next "page" of pictures)
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Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.
Don't worry it sucks as a user as well. Curiosity pushed me to use Google SSO to circumvent their crap one time, and they allowed themselves to subsequently spam my inbox with a flurry of emails. I proceeded to click the "unsubscribe" link in one of them, but to my surprise the spam kept coming. Turns out they have more than a dozen mailing settings and you have to painfully disable each one of them individually. Of…
I despise it when this happens. The only solution is to create a gmail filter to catch the entire domain and archive it or mark it as spam. It's surprising how many companies willfully ignore the unsubscribe option.
They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Now that Instagram has been totally Facebooked, I feel there’s a real gap in the market for what Instagram used to be. Just want something simple where I can upload some photos, do a bit of light editing, apply a nice filter and share with friends. And also see a chronological timeline of stuff they’ve posted. No likes, no engagement metrics, no personalisation, no skinner-boxing, no influencers. Well aware this make…
Odd, private firefox search and opened https://www.instagram.com/kimkardashian/ just fine. I know, dumb example.
Yes, same here. Try scrolling down a fair bit and you will see it. (happened to me on second "loading" of the next "page" of pictures)
So they became the new pinterest?
