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Unrelated but imgur is basically malware at this point. I had to click through so many layers of nagging popups (including a “don’t support us” button, then a severely low-contrast “view in safari” button on a dialog explicitly designed to get me to accidentally click the app link), then when I finally got to your picture, any sort of interaction with the page whatsoever, including pinch-zooming to see the image, just took me away to a different page altogether.

I sincerely hate imgur and hope the whole site goes bankrupt, and I can’t stand it when anyone links to them.





Yeah, imgur had very simple & humble origins and fostered a surprisingly active, reddit-like community (though I'm sure imgurians would resent that particular comparison), and then holy shit it just turned into a bizarrely bloated overstuffed hodgepodge of fire-garbage. I just looked at the homepage for the first time in forever and—wait, what? "Arcade"?

Bleh.


Can you suggest a low-effort alternative I can use in future?


Yeah can't see that lasting. I wish someone would make one with limited adverts that just pays for the hosting and moderation costs. How hard can it be?

I mean nothing is guaranteed to last in the future, but catbox.moe has been around for like a decade already.

https://alternativeto.net/software/imgur/

Here's a comparison of alternatives


I didn’t experience any of that, using an iPad. There were ads above and to the right of the OP video, but it displayed the video with no popups.

I'm glad that at times like these, I switched to Brave browser on all of my platforms (desktop and mobile). I can't recommend it enough.

Also it's not accessible in the UK without workarounds that I'm not going to bother with for that dumpster fire of a site.

strange, I got no pop ups at all



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