Imgur was an online photo storage site up to a couple of days ago, now shut down to this bloody labour Governments " ** Online Safety Act (OSA)"**.
talk about a dictorial state we might as well be in North Korea which is the way the UK is going. Who on earth ever voted for Labour needs their heads examined
I and hundreds of other photographers have now lost thousands/millions of saved photographs that was easy to download on sites like this. Used to use photobucket but that closed down years ago.
Flickr will no doubt be the next on line photo storage site to be ATTACKED BY THESE ABSOLUTELY BRAINLESS POLITICIANS IN POWER
I have found the same with IMGUR. I’ve been using them for years without issue but now cannot. I have thought about a VPN but then again, images on the Internet or forums are so transitory aren’t they? Viewed for a day or so by some and then forgotten. Not sure it’s worth worrying about too much in my case. Having said that, I’ll probably eventually do something about all the blank spaces I’m seeing in my own image thread. Imgbb or the forums own image host can be used.
Duck Duck Go is my default search engine but all my photos are stored on a couple of my NASs,
I do use the cloud Dropbox to transfer photos I take on my phone to my computers but they are not stored there for that long. The free service has a space limit so I move them on my desktop, then delete them all from Dropbox and start again. Works for me.
I presume I still have a Flikr account though I haven’t used it (probably) for decades
I think that is the only advantage, Google is a better search engine in many ways but spoiled by ads and sponsors. Duck Duck Go is also paid for by ads but they are clearly labelled whereas Google tries to hide the fact that some results are paid ads.
I notice that YouTube is almost unwatchable because of the amount of advertising and it is trying to stop people using ad blockers. Ghostery stopped working on Youtube, AdBlock still works
I am now retired. But a friend who ran the IT department at my old employers always said. Storage of documents either via thumb drives, hard drives, clouds etc etc is so cheap, easy & prone to issues. That anyone who fails to keep 3 copies, really does not care if they lose something or not.
I keep 3 copies of very little on my pc, cloud etc But anything I do care about I keep at least 2 copies of. It is in general free, or very cheap to do so.
I downloaded all of my uploaded images from IMGUR about a month ago, so not many are lost. I also have the original images (not optimised for Internet display) stored locally.
got it back via a VPN in the Netherlands, so two fingers up to the government
Just goes to show the mentality of those in power, they don’t have a clue on what they are doing. Ok it is free as well but limited amount of use, that don’t bother me as I from now on only use it for reference.
the sooner we get rid of this brain dead government the better. Not one expert in any subject.
It is only the UK. A read of the linked article explains why. The subsection ‘Commercial decision’ could be a relevant point.
It isn’t a questionable image host. It has a front page where people show photos and videos but in the years I have been using it, I’ve never seen anything bad on there. It has been possible to use IMGUR for just image hosting without displaying anything on the front page.
