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A little off-topic, but clicking imgur "direct" links on mobile redirects you to the standard m.imgur.com URL now? Eww.

eganist 8y ago
They started enforcing this pretty strictly in the last few weeks. It's a massive turnoff as a service, but considering they're a "social network" now and not just a reddit-specific image host, it's not a surprise.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Ah, the undending cycle of image hosting services. First they start clean and useful, then they gradually degrade in an increased effort to be profitable, then they get replaced by something new that's clean and useful...
  - Cthulhu_ 8y ago
    Only for as long as initial investor money lasts I guess. There's just no money to be made in 'free' image hosting without starting to do some nasty tactics, mostly involving direct (hot) linking.
    - TeMPOraL 8y ago
      How do you make money off hot linking? I thought hot linking was the thing users want to be able to do, that's inherently impossible to monetize.
      - marksomnian 8y ago
        Which is why you directly charge the users for it. cf. Photobucket
        TeMPOraL 8y ago
        Which is what makes people not want to use the service, and switch to whoever allows hotlinking at the moment. That's how imgur came to be.
larkeith 8y ago
They've been doing this for a while now; at least requesting the desktop site will still redirect you back to the actual image. Still enough for me to dislike any imgur link, however.
saurik 8y ago
(This also happens on non-mobile browsers.)
severine 8y ago
Maybe you'd like this web extension, Imagus: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/imagus https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/imagus https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bx8fnUCX4W2IN0E1UFN4Q3Zadnc https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bx8fnUCX4W2IN0E1UFN4... (versions for Chrome, Firefox, Maxthon, Opera and Safari) You just press $key when hovering over an image (edit: or image link) and voilà!

They started enforcing this pretty strictly in the last few weeks. It's a massive turnoff as a service, but considering they're a "social network" now and not just a reddit-specific image host, it's not a surprise.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
Ah, the undending cycle of image hosting services. First they start clean and useful, then they gradually degrade in an increased effort to be profitable, then they get replaced by something new that's clean and useful...
- Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  Only for as long as initial investor money lasts I guess. There's just no money to be made in 'free' image hosting without starting to do some nasty tactics, mostly involving direct (hot) linking.
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    How do you make money off hot linking? I thought hot linking was the thing users want to be able to do, that's inherently impossible to monetize.
    - marksomnian 8y ago
      Which is why you directly charge the users for it. cf. Photobucket
      - TeMPOraL 8y ago
        Which is what makes people not want to use the service, and switch to whoever allows hotlinking at the moment. That's how imgur came to be.

larkeith 8y ago

They've been doing this for a while now; at least requesting the desktop site will still redirect you back to the actual image. Still enough for me to dislike any imgur link, however.

saurik 8y ago

(This also happens on non-mobile browsers.)

severine 8y ago

Maybe you'd like this web extension, Imagus: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/imagus https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/imagus https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bx8fnUCX4W2IN0E1UFN4Q3Zadnc https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bx8fnUCX4W2IN0E1UFN4... (versions for Chrome, Firefox, Maxthon, Opera and Safari) You just press $key when hovering over an image (edit: or image link) and voilà!