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Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by DigitalSea on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:32AM (#14669986)
I forgot that Photobucket even existed, with far more superior choices like Google Photos and Dropbox existing. This is insane, RIP Photobucket.
Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by schitzapplebits on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:36AM (#14670007)
What about imgur?
Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by boyce on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:42AM (#14670048)
Only a matter of time before they do something about hotlinking. Direct image links now redirect to tell you to download their app, I'd be surprised if they didn't start watermarking embedded images or putting ads on them. Reddit hosting images on their own site haven't helped imgur
Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by DavidBuchanan on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:06AM (#14670170)
I wrote a simple extension to disable the new direct image link behaviour: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/imgur-anti-anti-hotlink
Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by cube00 on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:46AM (#14670074)
The 'open in app' also helpfully floats over the image on mobile with a nice narrow area to close the floating popup, oh look the store has just opened for me to download the imgur app again, if only they under stood by clicking X I'm never going to want your app.
Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by zeveb on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:45AM (#14670354)
I consider imgur a poor choice because it doesn't work with JavaScript disabled (dunno how Drive, Dropbox or Photobucket do, just that imgur breaks). It's in the business of serving JPEGs and HTML containing <img> tags pointing to JPEGs; to break that HTML such that those JPEGs don't serve is failing to deliver on its core business.

Sure, use JavaScript to implement infinite scrolling or on-demand loading, but fall back to usable pure HTML.

Re:Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites... by cerved on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:43AM (#14670625)
I'm confused. Which part doesn't work without js, the hosting or uploading?