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<blockquote data-quote="Automate" data-source="post: 10872375" data-attributes="member: 340712">Hmmm. Thing is, Imgur was already on the shitlist when I started this thread about 9 years ago.. It was there because despite clearly hosting adult content even at that time, they disallowed traffic from Freeones even when the images weren't hotlinked (by checking referrer, if you opened a completely new tab and pasted the imgur link, the image of course worked perfectly well). Imgur has always been heavily leaning towards reddit users. Maybe reddit wanted to have their own little exclusive ring of circlejerk where no other porn site could take part of? Who the fuck really knows what that was about at the time. Hosting costs quite a bit of money of course, so the motive of excluding traffic from Freeones (most likely a rather substantial amount of traffic) is the only thing that makes sense to me.Anyway, it's not a problem finding another image host at this point. If you see some porn hosted on imgur that you want to link here, just download it and host it elsewhere on the hosts that are listed in this thread or upload as an attachment if it's not an insanely large file.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Automate, post: 10872375, member: 340712"] Hmmm. Thing is, Imgur was already on the shitlist when I started this thread about 9 years ago.. It was there because despite clearly hosting adult content even at that time, they disallowed traffic from Freeones even when the images weren't hotlinked (by checking referrer, if you opened a completely new tab and pasted the imgur link, the image of course worked perfectly well). Imgur has always been heavily leaning towards reddit users. Maybe reddit wanted to have their own little exclusive ring of circlejerk where no other porn site could take part of? Who the fuck really knows what that was about at the time. Hosting costs quite a bit of money of course, so the motive of excluding traffic from Freeones (most likely a rather substantial amount of traffic) is the only thing that makes sense to me. Anyway, it's not a problem finding another image host at this point. If you see some porn hosted on imgur that you want to link here, just download it and host it elsewhere on the hosts that are listed in this thread or upload as an attachment if it's not an insanely large file. [/QUOTE]

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