Google is dropping Reddit and Twitter from their searches.
Twitter is throttling Tweets and you have to signin to view anything. Which would be crazy antivaxxer radicals, so not missing anything. No more free API use.
YouTube is blocking you after 3 videos if you use an adblocker.
Reddit has killed all 3rd party apps among API changes
Now Gfycat is going, man that's like most of the sites I used since a kid. Imgur seems to be around still at least.
Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days
And imgur banned porn and removed all posts not linked to a user account!
Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users.
Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.
Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active.
Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year.
Please don't start working at archive.org
Imgur banned and purged NSFW images
Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit
Facebook is looking might well run these days.
That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger
Imgur seems to be around still at least.
For now
Hanging on by a thread
Oh damn that YouTube bit is news to me. Mostly I just watch on my phone or ipad on my break at work, but always use an ad blocker at home.
Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them.
Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it.
Everything is falling down:
Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days
And imgur banned porn and removed all posts not linked to a user account!
Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users.
Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.
Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active.
Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year.
Please don't start working at archive.org
Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit
Facebook is looking might well run these days.
That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger
For now
Hanging on by a thread
Oh damn that YouTube bit is news to me. Mostly I just watch on my phone or ipad on my break at work, but always use an ad blocker at home.
Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them.
Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it.