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0 pointschrisan2y ago0 comments

> redirecting direct image links to their awful js-heavy reddit clone site

Are you perhaps copying the wrong thing when trying to share? I've never had this happen. Even copying an image link from their homepage at the time of this post works as expected

https://i.imgur.com/v052wgb.jpeg (some starwars cartoon) or https://i.imgur.com/VT1B7fn.mp4 (some cat with a pineapple)

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kroltan2y ago

Maybe you're stuck in some A/B control group type deal, because the same happens to me and the handful of people I've seen accessing imgur while screensharing.

It's not a new development, I believe this has been the case since at least 2016.

If visiting the page directly, we get served a HTML document with a billion resources that loads the image with a comment section beneath it, and includes a sidebar of "related" and "newest in most viral" content.

Possibly even advertisements, but I wouldn't know, as a good friend doesn't let friends browse the internet without an ad blocker.

kotaKat2y ago

If I click a link to it, it redirects to the full website. If I go to it directly (or curl it), I get the actual image. Might be referrer-based?

segasaturn2y ago

Yes there are ads. They do this so that they can serve ads to people.

taneq2y ago

I've found this to be inconsistent too. Usually I just get the pic but sometimes it seems to go back to the page? And holy hell is that site heavy for something that should just be showing an image, some navigation and a forum thread.

kroltan2y ago

Someone mentioned caching elsewhere, maybe you're viewing a hotlinked imgur picture in the same browser you use to later visit "the page", so it's cached as a raw image.

You could try opening the URL from a different browser? For example my main use case is clicking "Show Original" on Discord, so when it opens in my browser, the first visit is not in the context of an img tag.

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account422y ago

I get the redirect on my phone but not on desktop browsers.

TazeTSchnitzel2y ago

Even the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an <img> tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.

Joker_vD2y ago

Wait, what? How do they even distinguish those cases?

TazeTSchnitzel2y ago

The Accept header tells you whether the browser is expecting a web page or an image.

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thomond2y ago

Neither of those links are direct for me, they both redirect to imgur.io

kuroguro2y ago

Yeah, only works if you've visited that image before.

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Workaccount22y ago

I have use https://libredirect.github.io/ to get around imgurs stupid redirect nonsesne. It acts as a frontend that can directly load the image on a clean page.

So now I get

https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/v052wgb.jpeg

and

https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/VT1B7fn.mp4

when i click so I can actually load them without all the bs.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh2y ago

Oh, that is weird. I just clicked on the direct links you posted, and it did indeed redirect me to their awful JS-riddled UI. It definitely didn't do that back in the day.

Thanks for the pineapple cat, though. Big fan of that part.

capableweb2y ago

The problem is not the copying, it's a redirect that happens if someone hasn't seen the page image before, they get redirected from the direct image to the page instead.

Jenk2y ago

You first link redirected me to https://imgur.com/v052wgb

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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kroltan2y ago

Maybe you're stuck in some A/B control group type deal, because the same happens to me and the handful of people I've seen accessing imgur while screensharing.

It's not a new development, I believe this has been the case since at least 2016.

Possibly even advertisements, but I wouldn't know, as a good friend doesn't let friends browse the internet without an ad blocker.

kotaKat2y ago

If I click a link to it, it redirects to the full website. If I go to it directly (or curl it), I get the actual image. Might be referrer-based?

segasaturn2y ago

Yes there are ads. They do this so that they can serve ads to people.

taneq2y ago

kroltan2y ago

Someone mentioned caching elsewhere, maybe you're viewing a hotlinked imgur picture in the same browser you use to later visit "the page", so it's cached as a raw image.

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account422y ago

I get the redirect on my phone but not on desktop browsers.

TazeTSchnitzel2y ago

Even the i.imgur.com links will redirect when accessed outside an <img> tag. If they don't for you, it's probably due to caching.

Joker_vD2y ago

Wait, what? How do they even distinguish those cases?

TazeTSchnitzel2y ago

The Accept header tells you whether the browser is expecting a web page or an image.

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thomond2y ago

Neither of those links are direct for me, they both redirect to imgur.io

kuroguro2y ago

Yeah, only works if you've visited that image before.

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Workaccount22y ago

I have use https://libredirect.github.io/ to get around imgurs stupid redirect nonsesne. It acts as a frontend that can directly load the image on a clean page.

So now I get

https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/v052wgb.jpeg

and

https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/VT1B7fn.mp4

when i click so I can actually load them without all the bs.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh2y ago

Oh, that is weird. I just clicked on the direct links you posted, and it did indeed redirect me to their awful JS-riddled UI. It definitely didn't do that back in the day.

Thanks for the pineapple cat, though. Big fan of that part.

capableweb2y ago

The problem is not the copying, it's a redirect that happens if someone hasn't seen the page image before, they get redirected from the direct image to the page instead.

Jenk2y ago

You first link redirected me to https://imgur.com/v052wgb

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse