Please stop using Imgur! Image hosting alternatives list

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This seems like it can all be fixed by browser extensions/plug-ins, or even using something like Brave Browser and a VPN.

Idk, I kinda always liked Imgur because it removed meta/exif data

"EXIF data/metadata is removed from all images upon upload. There is no setting available to retain the data."

I honestly could care-less about their community or political leanings (although I have noticed certain albums getting locked and requiring you to make an account to view them, political albums, that is), I never interacted with them, only used them as an image host because of how streamlined and reliable it was.. But the stripping of exif/metadata is a nice feature, or so I thought. I don't really upload from mobile often so it isn't that much of an issue, but it seemed useful.

Do you know if any of the hosts you listed in your OP do the same (and if so which ones)?

Thanks for the post! :)

[–]la_cues[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They say they remove it, but their privacy policy almost says otherwise to me:

Our servers automatically collect the following [...] device ID for mobile devices [...] IP address [...]

We also log the metadata associated with any uploaded images. [...]

None of this information is “personal data” – that is, data we could use to identify a specific person. Some of this information could, however, become personal data because we provide automatically collected anonymous data to third party advertisers to supplement the tracking information described below, and those third parties might be able to combine our anonymous data with other data they have to enable them to identify people.

They clear the exif/metadata when it's viewed by others, but they log it in their servers?

So they log your IP, the device ID, and the metadata of the image, and justify selling it to third parties because they just call it "not personal data"?

(I'm actually a little confused about the wording)

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Wow, that's fucked lmao! I missed that when you originally quoted it!