[ SECRET POST #5949 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5949 ⌋

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Comments

Re: IMGUR WILL START TAKING DOWN IMAGES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT SOON

[(Anonymous)]

I'm having a look through reddit to see if there are any suggestions on there, but I'm also just reading through this thread on possible why:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12sbch3/imgur_is_updating_their_tos_on_may_15_2023_all/

and thought this was interesting
"If they're going to the registration only post model then something happened where they got a call from some government (probably the US) which was involved in some LEO action involving illicit content of some sort.
That's usually what triggers something like this. You would (probably not) be surprised just how much outright illegal pornographic content is stored in an either unlisted or private state and traded on clearnet sites.
At a certain point, if the authorities come knocking they either have to shut it all down or risk going completely out of business."

Re: IMGUR WILL START TAKING DOWN IMAGES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT SOON

[(Anonymous)]

Also another possible motive from the same thread:
"Imgur had wanted to become their own social network for, like, 10 years now or so. Early on, they basically cloned every single reddit sub, and enabled comments on every single image, and the comments worked pretty much exactly the same as they did on reddit, too. I actually used to be very active over there and barely used reddit because I liked the browsing UX better. But it seemed every change they pushed to "encourage" people to use imgur as a social network instead of just an image hosting service just made things worse for both. But a major issue with imgur is that their "boards" don't have any moderation. If a post got removed removed from reddit for violating a boards rules, it generally stayed up on imgur (unless that post violated imgur's TOS), so you had to wade through a ton of spam and trolling if you wanted to browse even a moderately popular board by new or rising.

Blocking 'anonymous' uploads feels like it's just another step to force people to use imgur as a social network. I suspect it is going to backfire pretty hard."

Re: IMGUR WILL START TAKING DOWN IMAGES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT SOON

[(Anonymous)]

Another reason this happens is because sites aren’t getting enough ad revenue and need user data to sell to stay afloat.

Re: IMGUR WILL START TAKING DOWN IMAGES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT SOON

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like this is probably the primary reason.

Re: IMGUR WILL START TAKING DOWN IMAGES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT SOON

[(Anonymous)]

Could you explain how they need user data to stay afloat if it's free? Would they be selling users' information?

Re: IMGUR WILL START TAKING DOWN IMAGES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCOUNT SOON

[(Anonymous)]

Short answer? Yes.