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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
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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
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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.
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