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(Off topic, but does someone know a good alternative to imgur? The website currently autoplays unrelated videos, freezes my mobile browser for several seconds, and appears to hijack the back button. It feels like malware.)

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I like https://catbox.moe. Works with ShareX and has a few tools like browser extension for right click upload context. https://catbox.moe/tools.php

With the caveat that you should fully expect catbox.moe to be added to your organization's blacklist if it hasn't been already. It's kind of the premier service for sharing content that falls into the "legally grey but no big service will ever let you keep it on their site" content like mass shooting videos, etc. Just don't get used to relying on it at work is all I'm saying.

As a general rule of thumb, if I've seen a URL shared on 4chan, I assume it's either a honeypot or a service people will judge me for associating with. I also avoid clicking such a URL because it's the kind of place I'd expect to find a zero day WebKit exploit.

closed source:

https://catbox.moe/faq.php

Drop your image into a comment on a GitHub issue, switch to preview and copy the link.

Sort of like using Twitter as a URL shortener.

Do not recommend abusing this.

It's too much of a hassle with NoScript too. At least 12 domains trying to run js and allowing just imgur still doesn't load the image. Ridiculous that you even need js to view an image anyway.

On a laptop/PC you could give the rimgo[0] frontend a try for simple viewing, no uploading or interacting. It's by no means perfect but works really well in addition with the LibRedirect[1] browser extension.

Rimgo is basically a frontend for imgur that you can selfhost (or use a public instance). The LibRedirect browser extension automatically replaces the imgur.com URL with the specified rimgo instance.

So for example https://imgur.com/gallery/eMKxD6t turns into https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/gallery/eMKxD6t.

[0] https://codeberg.org/elttil/rimgo

[1] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

This is great, thanks!

I just remembered a good image upload service: https://abload.de/

It is online since 2006, does no obviously evil browser stuff, and the guy hosting it seems cool.

If you are the one linking you can just grab the URL for the image file directly. If opening the website to do that is your problem... good luck I guess Lol

I linked the image file url, but checking on my phone, it redirects to the bloated page instead of the image. Loaded just the image on my desktop though.

On mobile they also default to serving resolutions that are completely unusable a lot of the time. I find myself going to desktop mode for anything with text on it.

Ah yes, that's another major problem. I couldn't see anything on the screenshot. So far I always assumed the poster uploaded the wrong resolutionm.

You can link the image without the "i" subdomain and it will redirect to the direct image.

eg: https://imgur.com/4clqUdj.jpg (picture of a cat)

since the traffic appear to come from the main domain to them, it does to redirect back to the html page.

This is what showed up for me https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/519791942654230528/10... .

Yeah, they redirect to that website which has all these issues. The back button hijacking (it doesn't work on that site in Chrome) is the most annoying one.

oh, thanks. looks like it does not work on mobile.

http://0x0.st

open source:

https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0

I just had to close the tab myself.

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