I don't get it. You have it. You know the user wants it. You know the user wants it very much, enough to go through all that crap. Yet you are going out of your way to not give him access, making him so frustrated that any hope of "but he will crawl around more and do more stuff" is quickly replaced by "he closes the tab in anger at having lost 5 minutes" ...
I'm sure there are metrics showing that it works, or maybe that it doesn't lose enough people to be worth changing, but it is so unnecessary.
The ad blocking Pi-Hole provides is a nice bonus, too.
1: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension...
It blocks search and image results by pattern, and also removes the URL tracker wrapping wherever possible.
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.
I just created an account with an email but after few minutes of clicking around it locked me out. I can only use it again if I give them my phone number, too -.-
As if this wasn't enough of their invasive procedures my profile officially says "Account is blocked because of suspicious behavior".
This is some advanced trickery to fool users into giving them more data than they intended to do when creating a profile and it sucks.
There are more examples: Have you tried browsing Facebook or Xing as a user? It's all a really crappy experience.
I'm not saying this to defend twitter, this is definitely some aggressive, disingenuous behavior.
Just to be sure I also ordered a free SIM card so I have a spam phone for these kinds of services.
Thank you for the advice.
"If you need to reset your Twitter password, please request a new one here: https://twitter.com/account/begin_password_reset.
If your Twitter account is suspended or locked and you are unable to access it, please log in to your account and use the following form to get in touch with us: https://support.twitter.com/forms/general?subtopic=suspended...
Because my account is "temporarily restricted" neither of the cases matches so I think this is their kind way telling me to f-ck off or give them what they want. I don't like these kind of games and I'm thinking about not using their service after all.
It's a TLD and no service like ProtonMail. Gmail would be the next party I don't want to share information with - I know those are complicated preferences from a "normal" point of view but I don't like to spread my data too much.
Especially as a site that specializes in hosting nearly exclusively non-original content, it's so ethically wrong for them to use such tactics.
Pinterest, Quora, Instagram, I never understood why people keep using these clearly unethical websites. Stop using them and other better alternatives will pop out, it's not like you depend on them like you depend on grocery shops or clothing stores. Voting with your attention is easy and cheap.
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.
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 makes me sound old - and this hypothetical service will never make unicorn money. But I’d use it in a flash.
IG is the defacto "photo sharing" tool because it does all of these. What you are describing is closer to Imgur but they have comments and likes as well, simply because without there's no reason for people to come back.
https://help.micro.blog/2017/instagram/
But they make it really hard to even see that they have photo / Instagram-esque features, and it seems mostly connected with their iOS app Sunlit:
I used to be a member but found the service very hipster & Apple / iOS centric. But it might be what some people here are looking for.
Have you investigated paid options? Otherwise, it's kind of silly that people expect free image hosting years after everyone has started monetizing.
Another entry for the hall of fame is Quora.
Someone should make a bugmenot browser extension...
They HAVE the full res image. There's even bookmarkets to snag the image. What twisted product goal led to the current state?
[0] https://snap.as
And then there is also 500px, a bit more controlled but still very nice in my opinion.
Frankly I'm also slightly annoyed with Unsplash for reinventing the wheel with their own license instead of using standard CC licenses, reducing compatibility with other free culture projects.
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.
Images really shouldn’t be stored anyway with rotation data in the EXIF. By pre rotating it you normalize and make it ready to use in any context.
The EXIF should be stripped out and used for other sorts of analytics.
It is decentralized and open source.
I loved the idea too, Mastodon is somewhat limited and if we can get more alternatives all the better.
Stack is PHP/MySQL so it'll run anywhere. I've been using for years now with no complaints.
Flickr is very good. Amount of users doesn't really affect my use-case, which is offsite storage and being able to send links to my friends/family.
In fact it is maybe the only service that I pay for.
def generate_with_wand(self, wand_img: WandImage):
# create stripped down version of our image:
wand_img.strip()
wand_img.auto_orient()
wand_img.compression_quality = 90
thumb = wand_img.clone()
thumb.transform(resize=self.size)
thumb.save(filename=str(self.get_output_path()))Someone originally thought it would be a good idea to ignore EXIF data, and by the time someone else cared enough to address it, they were worried about breaking sites that had bad rotation EXIF data if browsers suddenly started honoring it.
Mozilla tried to add image-orientation: from-image CSS for this purpose, so sites could say "no actually the EXIF data really is good", but then no other browser vendor followed along.
So as usual, everything in computer science is just terrible for the sake of legacy compatibility with the first implementations ever made.
It works fine when you open the image directly, but it will not apply EXIF corrects for inline images (<img> tag). There are JS libraries that load the image as file data to read the EXIF data and apply the correct rotation, but those fail in some cases (HTTPS trying to load data for an HTTP-linked image, for example).
Personally I'm using Instagram for casual "here's my life" photos where I don't care about compression or any of that, Flickr for more curated public photos, and Google Drive as a secondary private backup.
At that point imgur became less about easy photo sharing on reddit and others, and more about creating its own community.
Kind of silly I can't find a good image sharing site in 2019.