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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] jplate8 25 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Wait what's happening with imgur?

[–] GingeyBook 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Removing porn and all images not uploaded from an imgur account

[–] protput 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But why the porn?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's just too damn much of it, and the people accessing it generally aren't stopping to be advertised to. That's a lot of storage and bandwidth costs with very little ability to make money back.

[–] RGB3x3 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If everyone would just stop clicking on ads, this whole "the customer is the product" business model across the internet would stop within a week.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I hear you and I'm with you. I don't even look at ads, I don't permit my software on my hardware to offend me with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What would they switch to, though?

[–] essteeyou 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That and the desire to make money while being at the mercy of two card processors who set the rules. If you want MasterCard or Visa support then remove porn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nsfw images can't be monitised with ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I sure hope my trusty ShareX program isn’t affected…