Every time when a YouTube video is embedded in Lemmy, a bot appears, suggesting to use Front-end Piped (or another) instead of YT, which is certainly recommended, due to YouTube’s inherent privacy concerns.

However, then it is not understandable, why in the case of images Imgur links are happily allowed, which is infinitely worse in terms of privacy, which shares user and usage data with the worst existing advertising companies, which makes it in little less than spyware.

As a suggestion I present 2 alternatives, which in addition to, as EU products, strictly adhere to the GDPR standard and even more.

As the main FileCoffee service, this, apart from images, supports ALL types of files, whether multimedia, video, documents, presentations or texts. Supports 15 Mb/file and with optional registration to also use it as a personal host (100% free with mail, password) up to 30 Mb/file, encrypted. Inclusions script one click for ShareX on Windows or MagicCap on Linux or Mac

The second is vgy.me, also privacy oriented, but supports only images, encryption, 20 Mb/image, EXIF Data are removed, API for web pages.

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    I think it shouldn’t be managed on lemmy side but on the users’ side, e.g. on your device/browser. Libredirect can automatically redirect to those sites, not on just lemmy, but everywhere on the internet: https://libredirect.github.io/

    Another problem is these alternative frontends relatively frequently disappear. If you post a link to a random instance, it’s quite possible that 5 years later the instance will be down, and the link won’t work at all. Libredirect addon updates the urls of working instances, so it will work later. There is even a button in the addon to switch to another instance, so you can find the best available site.

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      FileCoffee and vgy.me are not frontends, they are independent European cloudservices since several years, FileCoffee since 2018, nothing to do with imgur. But yes, I think that this also should be managed by the Lemmy admins. Anyway its also an advice to all users with this alternatives to avoid this imgurcrap

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        Ah, ok, I misunderstood, because you started with the piped bot, and that’s totally different from this services. So you are not writing about imgur frontends, but for uploaders to upload their images elsewhere. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I just don’t like that bot.


        But for embedding images, your privacy scan is not relevant, it’s just the home page of imgur you scanned. If you share the direct link to the image, no tracker downloaded, only the image. Just rightclick on the image and ‘Copy image link’. If you paste this link to this privacy inspector it says no trackers, as it’s not a webpage, just an image. They will know your ip and useragent, but that’s all, no extra tracking:

        Of course it’s better to support more privacy respecting services, and thank you for the recommendations, but it’s not as big issue as it sounds. It doesn’t affect the viewers of the images just the uploaders.

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    It might also be good to have a bot that links to Imgin or Rimgo, which are privacy-respecting frontends for Imgur.

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      No, we don’t need more bots spaming. It should be a client option instead.

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      Well, acshually, bit doesn’t have a metric symbol and ‘b’ is defined as barn. So Mb would be a megabarn.

      Edit: And to be even more nitpicking: If the image size is defined as binary, it should be MiB (mebibyte) since “mega” is defined as base 10.

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        No. “Mi” is just a different prefix than “M” and it doesn’t matter what units you attach them to. Why would it? It’s just a multiplication with 2^20 or 10^6, respectively.

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          No.

          Where’s the contradiction? Yes, it’s just a different prefix but it results in a different number. What I meant to adress is that very often people write MB/megabytes (10⁶ = 1,000,000 bytes) but actually mean MiB/mebibytes (2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bytes). RAM vendors possibly most prominently.

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            There is no contradiction. But there is also nothing contradictory or wrong with the unit MB. If I say “this is 100MB”, maybe I just… mean that? No reason to correct me.

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          2^20 = 1.048.576 ≠ 1.000.000 = 10^6

          Ki Mi Gi Prefixes are for powers of two, K M G for powers of ten.

          Of course you can choose whatever prefix you prefer, but when talking about storage or anything digital for that matter, we usually mean the power of two series. For that matter it’s better to be explicit instead of assuming everybody knows.

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            I never claimed that 2^20 is the same as 10^6. In fact, I explicitly said that they are different. But if I use M on purpose, it is not a correction to just replace it with Mi, for that same reason.

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          Ha, good one! Got me interested, how the standards bodies handle something like that. Found this in the Wikipedia article for byte:

          The unit symbol for the byte is specified in IEC 80000-13, IEEE 1541 and the Metric Interchange Format[10] as the upper-case character B.

          In the International System of Quantities (ISQ), B is the symbol of the bel, a unit of logarithmic power ratio named after Alexander Graham Bell, creating a conflict with the IEC specification. However, little danger of confusion exists, because the bel is a rarely used unit. It is used primarily in its decadic fraction, the decibel (dB), for signal strength and sound pressure level measurements, while a unit for one-tenth of a byte, the decibyte, and other fractions, are only used in derived units, such as transmission rates.

          Somewhat disappointing. “There’s a conflict but it’s fine”.

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    Thanks, I’ve been looking for an imgur altenative. I’ll try those suggestions.