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Thanks for the image! But next time, please post a direct link instead of the JS blob that Imgur has become. <3
by kchr 8y ago
Thanks for the image! But next time, please post a direct link instead of the JS blob that Imgur has become. <3
- exikyut 8y agoThe user actually did. The website redirected. imgur has figured out how and when it's safe to redirect PNG/JPG requests to a "JS blob" (of advertising), unfortunately. They tried to pull this a few months ago, completely bungled <img> embeds, and had to turn it off in a hurry. I think they've figured it out this time, sadly! Time for a new image host... imgur has gone all high-level and "scale"-ey, it would seem (particularly with the new video with sound thing). I was going to say something about toxicity, but this is sadly just a scaling problem. Now that sound - and competing with youtube - is the new "major consideration", just being a competent works-anywhere image host has been relegated to the region of rounding errors, so it doesn't matter in the same way if they get that right anymore. :(
- Can_Not 8y agoAlso, they're detecting that I'm on a mobile browser and forcing a redirect to a smaller version version of the file with _d appended to the filename. If this were a large file, I would not be able to see the full size without something like changing my user agent.