I'm surprised image hosting never went aggressively with proabilistic advertising. 80% of the time, it loads your image, 20% you get an ad for Pepsi (or an ad

I'm surprised image hosting never went aggressively with proabilistic advertising. 80% of the time, it loads your image, 20% you get an ad for Pepsi (or an ad overlaid over the bottom third of the image) You're offering only cheap 'branding' CPM advertising, because you can't control how the image will be presented to provide any interactivity or clickability. Technologically, it requires no changes for the embed code, and could work with a "just load the image" view-- it's all server side magic. But at imgur's scale, that's not smll potatoes money. Importantly, the inconvenience that sort of ad presents to users is modest and manageable. If you can't see the photo, reload it once. It's not going to be 30 seconds of loading dependencies and non-content until you give up BEFORE seeing the photo, and it won't be the photobucket-style "let's just disable hundreds of millions of external embeds AFTER 10 years of people building valuable resources around them.