>>ajsnig+Tg
404 does it because they don’t like AI scraping. https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...

>>morkal+Wg
A famous article on that: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011

>>BuyMyB+Xj
It blows me away that none of the web browsers are trying to fix this. We eliminated popups back in the 90s/2000s, but now they're back again and no one cares.

Anyway, install the Kill Sticky bookmarklet, it gets rid of all the incompetent webdev crap like popups and those stupid sticky headers/footers: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...

>>Aurorn+Jk
You can read a lot more about this on Wikipedia, most would be surprised at just how bad parts of it were -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

>>morkal+Wg
aka "hotlinking"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

>>miiiii+(OP)
Lots of comments but nothing talking about all the lawsuits against medialab (mentioned in the fine article):

https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/medialab-bought-up...

The company has bought up a bunch of web properties and proceeded to reneg on paying out. Absolutely scum behaviour right there.

>>x18746+6o
I've always compared it to that tiny alien city in a train station locker from Men In Black II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sd10CHAP8

>>miiiii+(OP)
Honestly, Imgur’s been falling apart — layoffs, broken stuff, random policy changes, and everyone’s sick of being treated like the product. I just started using https://s3nd.pics and it feels like what Imgur should’ve been: no ads, no data-selling, no weird algorithm. You control what you see, and the vibe is way more community-first. Worth checking out if you’re tired of the same old “platform milks users until it dies” cycle.