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> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this h
by chrisan 3y ago
> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site
Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this happen. Even copying an image link from their homepage at the time of this post works as expected
https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg (some starwars cartoon) or https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 (some cat with a pineapple)
- Jenk 3y agoYou first link redirected me to https://imgur.com/v052wgb https://imgur.com/v052wgb
- Workaccount2 3y agoI have use https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/ to get around imgurs stupid redirect nonsesne. It acts as a frontend that can directly load the image on a clean page. So now I get https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/v052wgb.jpeg https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/v052wgb.jpeg and https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/VT1B7fn.mp4 https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/VT1B7fn.mp4 when i click so I can actually load them without all the bs.
- q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y agoOh, that is weird. I just clicked on the direct links you posted, and it did indeed redirect me to their awful JS-riddled UI. It definitely didn't do that back in the day. Thanks for the pineapple cat, though. Big fan of that part.
- thomond 3y agoNeither of those links are direct for me, they both redirect to imgur.io
- kuroguro 3y agoYeah, only works if you've visited that image before.
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- capableweb 3y agoThe problem is not the copying, it's a redirect that happens if someone hasn't seen the page image before, they get redirected from the direct image to the page instead.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoEven the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an <img> tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.
- Joker_vD 3y agoWait, what? How do they even distinguish those cases?
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoThe Accept header tells you whether the browser is expecting a web page or an image.
- hexage1814 3y agoIn fact you can make the page to send you the damn image, and it supposed to be, if you use some extension to modify your user agent and lies to imgur your are using curl something.
- stemlord 3y agoDo you know of such an extension? Tumblr and a few other sites do this too and I've been looking for a client side solution for years now
- hexage1814 3y agoSimple Modify Header Imgur.com user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
- account42 3y agoIMO that along with the Referer header is a mistake or at least the browser should allow you to overwrite that.
- kroltan 3y agoMaybe you're stuck in some A/B control group type deal, because the same happens to me and the handful of people I've seen accessing imgur while screensharing. It's not a new development, I believe this has been the case since at least 2016. If visiting the page directly, we get served a HTML document with a billion resources that loads the image with a comment section beneath it, and includes a sidebar of "related" and "newest in most viral" content. Possibly even advertisements, but I wouldn't know, as a good friend doesn't let friends browse the internet without an ad blocker.
- taneq 3y agoI've found this to be inconsistent too. Usually I just get the pic but sometimes it seems to go back to the page? And holy hell is that site heavy for something that should just be showing an image, some navigation and a forum thread.
- kroltan 3y agoSomeone mentioned caching elsewhere, maybe you're viewing a hotlinked imgur picture in the same browser you use to later visit "the page", so it's cached as a raw image. You could try opening the URL from a different browser? For example my main use case is clicking "Show Original" on Discord, so when it opens in my browser, the first visit is not in the context of an img tag.
- taneq 3y agoI just tested this by loading a couple of images in Firefox, clearing cache and saved sessions in Edge, and pasting the direct URLs of the image files. Both files loaded the image instead of redirecting to the page. So I dunno whether it's in A/B testing, or they're fingerprinting my system in some cross-browser way, or what. Anyone from imgur here who can just tell us? :D
- account42 3y agoI get the redirect on my phone but not on desktop browsers.