Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
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I spit on the grave of imgur. Their neotumblr user base will HATE this
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Angry coomers are fun to watch, but yeah...Imgur has gradually been going down the shitter over the past decade or so...trying to make themselves an actual social media site of their own (and not just a tool for reddit or other sites) has really changed them too much...
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Did tumblr teach them nothing?
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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idgaf about the coomercide because who gets their porn from imgur anyway. I'm more bothered that they are deleting all anonymous uploads so for the next few years it's going to be a minefield of dead links a la megaupload
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Time to mass download existing content before it gets removed
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Lol
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king krazy sees a unforseen consequence to this. Almost all of the rdrama grass touch pics are hosted on imgur from unlogged in accounts. So save all the funny ones
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I got all the angry coomers with help and support. They need it more than anyone.
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Wiki editors in shambles. Every fan wiki just sharted.
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Payment Providers strike again.
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I wonder what their endgame is.
Coincidentally, imgur's cut off date is almost 3 years to the day gfycat officially banned nsfw content. Gfycat had made redgifs in late 2019 and then pulled the switch in may 2020. Wiki says redgifs was sold off to some other company. Also in May 2020 Facebook purchased giphy for a couple hundred million. But they got cucked by the bong regulators and were forced to sell it. Snapchat had been looking to acquire giphy too, but Facebook outbid them so Snap purchased gfycat instead. Now I don't know what's become of either giphy or gfycat. Lot's of doomposting in /r/Gfycat in recent months.
I don't know how these sites even enforce the no porn rule. 3 years later, it's still full of porn
https://old.reddit.com/domain/gfycat.com/new/
But the subs doomposting are saying gfycat has basically been abandoned? Which I don't understand if snap purchased it? What was the point.
If imgur is trying to sell, who would even buy?
Edit: Oh imgur was already purchased by MediaLab in 2021. Idk what they're about.
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SLIMGUR BROS
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this kills the imgur
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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There was porn on imgur?
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Yes
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I'd guess it was primarily reddit porn being hosted on imgur.
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Get fricked Imgur. Something needs to be done about the Christ cucks who are cucking Visa and Masterpay into destroying coomers tho, coomers deserve pain but this is too much power.
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Lol
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This has nothing to do with Christian morality. It's because no one wants to be associated with child pornography, and it's very labor/cost intensive to moderate it on an open image host.
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The cp thing is a facade, Christian anti-porn crusaders are behind the pressure being put on PayPal and Masterpay, they just use the kiddies as a weapon to make it seem righteous (as always).
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you're entirely right but ironically it's not Christians anymore, it's the 'progressives' that hate porn now
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If you genuinely believe that Christian activists have influence over any major tech or finance companies in the US, please provide me with your go-to drug combo because it's clearly top quality stuff.
I know I'm being baited, but I'm too 'tistic not to engage.
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I only smoke weed.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpp7d/visa-suspends-pornhub-advertising
The Christian organisation that buckbroke Pornhub in question:
https://exoduscry.com/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy4z/petition-shut-down-pornhub-trafficking-hub-earn-it
It's not just Christians, it's an unofficial alliance of "porn is Satan" evangelicals and "is this pixel consenting?" progressives all working together to frick over MindGeek.
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Mormons, nuff said
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IMGVR
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I guarantee that the only reason they're doing this is because of the same problems Tumblr was dealing with, which was massive amounts of cp
Honestly I dislike the ban but what else can you do
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Don’t keep yourself safe friend. There is lots of other porn on the internet.
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If i cant jerk it to /r/strugglefricking the christian nationalists win
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lol https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/12sac2y/imgur_is_updating_their_tos_on_may_15_2023_all/jgyja6u/?sort=controversial
apparently because there was some ad campaign that started 1 month ago Reddit = christian
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Snappy pull up the lobbying stats
Porn has been slowly entering the lobby game too https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/22/porn-industry-lobbying-513487
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I fricking wish that was true
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Porn is objectively not a normal thing its the commodification of sexuality. Imagine being like sad theres no lobby for coomers and instead lobbies for private gun ownership
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Hmmmm I wonder what kinds of things those parts of the world also take a strong moral stance against
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Aren't these only the community rules, though? IIRC, they only apply to public posts, which are the ones that are accessible from Imgur's weird built-in social media service, but not to hidden posts, which are the ones people actually link to on Reddit. I'm familiar with Imgur's TOS, they've always banned public NSFW content.
Unless I'm r-slurred and I'm getting something seriously wrong here, it seems to me like nothing has changed. Well, nothing except Imgur's stocks, which are surely plummeting by now. Lol. Lmao, even.
Edit: oops, nevermind. They really are going to pull a Tumblr. The link they gave us there is wrong, they're linking to the old ToS page. This link is the one that's actually talking about the changes that will go into effect.
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If you're right this news is way less significant
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I don’t see anything out of place? A lot more peepees I guess
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no shit, it's real. Looks like gifs are still up and anything from the "top" page is either not gotten to yet, grandfathered in, or exempted because of its number of updoots, but all the static images from the front page are nuked. That is crazy. I can only imagine imgur is going to implode after this
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I wonder though if it will affect the private images you've uploaded yourself but never made public
I just need an image host darnit
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Upload to your rDrama profile.
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i genuinely thought this was a joke but it isnt, holy frick lol
its over
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BASED BASED BASED COOMERCAUST NOW
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Just a little fun fact, for a while you could browse banned subs content by going to Imgur.com/r/subname
They got rid of that feature while distancing from Reddit tho
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Pholder.com/r/subname does the same thing, although not all subs are archived. Ihsoyct.github.io also works and I think it was made by fellow dramautist @ihsoy, and it can access comments and sort, but it takes a while to load.
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Never forget
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It's hilarious that this was the tipping point that got them banana'd.
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It was when reddit jannies realised that they weren't going to be spared that FPH got mopped
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Skinnier than reddit admins.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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jöóòøst
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Wow such a high bar
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5. - It's an expression of pain.
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Payment processors do not like dealing with porn in general and most of that is due to it probably being the industry with the most chargebacks and stolen cards being used.
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Twitter is atm too big to be clamped down on like that. Give it another year with Musk at the helm
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there's people with a fetish for this on twitter, I've seen it go around. truly it takes all types
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Pet the wet to mammories bro
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Ah, thanks for the heads up. Need to grab a bunch of stuff I had uploaded.
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Because child porn inevitably ends up on it in large quantities.
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Rather the cost of dealing with it.
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There's a lot of pedos in prison who'd do it for free and never get burnt out.
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Law mandates that prisoners get paid for work, unlike jannies.
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They're a subsidiary of reddit so I hope they go bankrupt
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Aren't they independent? They started as an image host for reddit but I thought they'd always been separate
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No. Reddit bought them a while ago
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They definitely didn't
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Ok sweaty :@konkey_dongle64pat:
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Because any platforms that allow anonymous users to upload large amounts of files that aren't well indexed and can be hidden from the public inevitably gets FLOODED with CP
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Isn’t it weird how tech companies can’t get rid of CP but they’re able to completely purge conspiracy theories, hateful speech and vaccine misinformation from their platforms.
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I mean they try but they dont succeed. Virtue signalling is easier than solving crimes
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Text is a lot easier to automatically search than images
Not to mention lol non-english twitter is just full of the stuff
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Yeah CP account are fricking everywhere on twitter and I hate how everyone was like "they stopped you from searching the word loli in the search bar, everything is solved!" And now nobody cares any more
What's funny is how I discovered this problem independently a while ago - I was looking through what accounts weeb groypers were following lmao, filled with private p-do accounts
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hope you reportmaxxed that shit my dude (in person, with a sniper scope, in minecraft)
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I've been on the Internet for 23 years and have NEVER come across CP (except weeb loli shit that isn't real) randomly ever. And this is with years of browsing 4Chan, Reddit and other forums. I don't know what Internet you guys are on.
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I've come across it but yeah it's rare, even if you're terminally online
I think once on Facebook and all other times chans/imageboards or random sites, but never on porn sites
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I haven't seen any actual cp thankfully but those twitter accounts I mentioned are a very well known problem, and incredibly easy to find
If you ever spent much time on the chans over a decade ago it was fairly common, and these days it's still used as a way to troll websites with raids and shit
But seriously, it's eeeeverywhere on twitter, just go check some weeb groyper Nazi accounts, you will see in the list of accs they follow there will be new accounts made within the last few weeks, private, saying stuff like "DM me" n shit
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Can't wait for half of the public-facing internet to be [sorry, this image was deleted] once this goes thru
Current hyperfixation:
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The glorious days of dead hotlinks are back
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This already happened, RIP tinypic and along with it the visual history of old forums
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I'm not ready to face another heck like this
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An old car forum I've been a part of for 15 years has technical info threads full of dead photobucket links.
So much useful information lost forever
I've started self hosting service manuals and other data I've collected over the years to try and keep some of this stuff alive
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archive.org better get moving
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everything has to die. how else will humanity declutter?
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Thanks Patriot AI
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I'm having vietnam flashbacks to the photobucket frog.
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Imageshack had a frog pic, photobucket had something different.
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