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Very interesting indeed! Off-topic: May I suggest that you switch to using imgur instead of the image host you chose? The ads on imgur are much less intrusive.

themodelplumber 8y ago
Imgur doesn't work on the old iPod I was using while my phone charged. It never loads fully, but TBF I never upgrade iOS past 2 major versions. So iOS 7 and the first "plain" image host search result it is... :-) Edit: Found the image link on my own site: https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/266.jpg https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/266.jpg
- codetrotter 8y ago
  Understandable. Unfortunate but understandable.
  - themodelplumber 8y ago
    Found a copy on my web server and linked above.
    - codetrotter 8y ago
      Thanks :)
- JCharante 8y ago
  It'd work if people just simply posted the direct image, so you don't have to load their massively bloated website. Then again a direct link wouldn't support them through their monitization methods (ads), but if I'm already running an ad blocker..
  - codetrotter 8y ago
    While I argued for Imgur over using the hosting site the parent to mine used with regards to intrusiveness of ads I should note something important about Imgur with regards to the bloat you mentioned. The image subdomain servers of Imgur, i.imgur.com, look at the referer of your request and will conditionally redirect you to the web app. Basically, direct links to images will only give you the image directly if the page you came from is on their whitelist. Reddit is on said whitelist but I don’t think HN is. And to further complicate the matter keep in mind that browser caching might make it look to you as though a direct link you posted somewhere is really direct, but to those who haven’t visited the image already they will be redirected the first time they visit that direct link. For example, here is a direct link to an image hosted on Imgur: https://i.imgur.com/6O265V5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6O265V5.jpg For me it will look this direct link serves the image only, even when I click my own link in this comment after I’ve posted the comment and am visiting it with HN as referer. But if HN is not on their whitelist then you and everyone else clicking the link in my comment will be redirected to their web app, provided you didn’t happen to have the image in your cache already. Edit: Yup, visited the link in this comment from another computer and am indeed redirected as I expected. Edit 2: Am also redirected even on the device I posted from when following the link in my comment. So even browser caching didn’t stop that in this case.
    - userbinator 8y ago
      The image subdomain servers of Imgur, i.imgur.com, look at the referer of your request and will conditionally redirect you to the web app. Fortunately, if you send no referer it seems you get the image directly. This is easy to do with a browser setting.
      - codetrotter 8y ago
        > This is easy to do with a browser setting. On your desktop browser yes. On mobile devices not as easy. And even on desktop you might not want to globally disable sending referer because other sites might break. And even if you use a browser add-on to only block referers for i.imgur.com, most other people haven’t so everyone else is still being redirected.
  - themodelplumber 8y ago
    What's weird is, I'm pretty sure I originally posted the "direct" image link that PostImage provided, among the options given post-upload. When I tested the link from HN, I just saw the image on Safari's black background. But minutes later I tested the same link here at HN and saw the image buried in a page of ads. I wonder if they have some kind of "hey, non-members get a limited number of directs" policy.

themodelplumber 8y ago

Imgur doesn't work on the old iPod I was using while my phone charged. It never loads fully, but TBF I never upgrade iOS past 2 major versions. So iOS 7 and the first "plain" image host search result it is... :-) Edit: Found the image link on my own site: https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/266.jpg https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/266.jpg

codetrotter 8y ago
Understandable. Unfortunate but understandable.
- themodelplumber 8y ago
  Found a copy on my web server and linked above.
  - codetrotter 8y ago
    Thanks :)
JCharante 8y ago
It'd work if people just simply posted the direct image, so you don't have to load their massively bloated website. Then again a direct link wouldn't support them through their monitization methods (ads), but if I'm already running an ad blocker..
- codetrotter 8y ago
  While I argued for Imgur over using the hosting site the parent to mine used with regards to intrusiveness of ads I should note something important about Imgur with regards to the bloat you mentioned. The image subdomain servers of Imgur, i.imgur.com, look at the referer of your request and will conditionally redirect you to the web app. Basically, direct links to images will only give you the image directly if the page you came from is on their whitelist. Reddit is on said whitelist but I don’t think HN is. And to further complicate the matter keep in mind that browser caching might make it look to you as though a direct link you posted somewhere is really direct, but to those who haven’t visited the image already they will be redirected the first time they visit that direct link. For example, here is a direct link to an image hosted on Imgur: https://i.imgur.com/6O265V5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6O265V5.jpg For me it will look this direct link serves the image only, even when I click my own link in this comment after I’ve posted the comment and am visiting it with HN as referer. But if HN is not on their whitelist then you and everyone else clicking the link in my comment will be redirected to their web app, provided you didn’t happen to have the image in your cache already. Edit: Yup, visited the link in this comment from another computer and am indeed redirected as I expected. Edit 2: Am also redirected even on the device I posted from when following the link in my comment. So even browser caching didn’t stop that in this case.
  - userbinator 8y ago
    The image subdomain servers of Imgur, i.imgur.com, look at the referer of your request and will conditionally redirect you to the web app. Fortunately, if you send no referer it seems you get the image directly. This is easy to do with a browser setting.
    - codetrotter 8y ago
      > This is easy to do with a browser setting. On your desktop browser yes. On mobile devices not as easy. And even on desktop you might not want to globally disable sending referer because other sites might break. And even if you use a browser add-on to only block referers for i.imgur.com, most other people haven’t so everyone else is still being redirected.
- themodelplumber 8y ago
  What's weird is, I'm pretty sure I originally posted the "direct" image link that PostImage provided, among the options given post-upload. When I tested the link from HN, I just saw the image on Safari's black background. But minutes later I tested the same link here at HN and saw the image buried in a page of ads. I wonder if they have some kind of "hey, non-members get a limited number of directs" policy.