How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit

Re:How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit by fancy_betta on Saturday April 26, 2014 @12:29PM (#7651909)

They monetize the hell out of it now. A few times a day I click an imgur link and the page will show the image for a fraction of a second before forwarding to a full-page ad. It won't last much longer before someone else comes along with something less annoying and fewer ads.

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Re:How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit by knome on Saturday April 26, 2014 @12:33PM (#7651924)

I've never seen a fullpage ad on imgur. They've got sidebar ads, and the occasional promoted image, but never an overlay or popup.

If you're getting the latter, you might want to scan for malware.

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Re:How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit by vilhelm_s on Saturday April 26, 2014 @01:16PM (#7652076)

I see this every couple of days: http://imgur.com/gallery/AluV1G0

I somewhat doubt it's malware on my computer, because it only happens on imgur.

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Re:How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit by Spittie on Saturday April 26, 2014 @03:26PM (#7652468)

A while ago, their ad network started to serve .apk to Android users (see https://pay.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1qwb2i/weird_apk_t...). This is way worse than "just a fullscreen ads", since a malware on Android can easily steal your contacts and make you pay a fortune using premium numbers.

Their ads provider are probably doing this without the consent from imgur, but I doubt they'll change ads provider. After all, the one serving the more shady ads are the one paying more.

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Re:How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit by masklinn on Saturday April 26, 2014 @12:36PM (#7651945)

Never seen a fullpage ad either, although I finally had to add imgur to adblock when they started autoplaying video ads.

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