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Cthulhu_
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NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
Only for as long as initial investor money lasts I guess. There's just no money to be made in 'free' image hosting without starting to do some nasty tactics, mostly involving direct (hot) linking.
TeMPOraL
on June 4, 2018
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How do you make money off hot linking? I thought hot linking was the thing
users
want to be able to do, that's inherently impossible to monetize.
marksomnian
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Which is why you directly charge the users for it. cf. Photobucket
TeMPOraL
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Which is what makes people not want to use the service, and switch to whoever allows hotlinking at the moment. That's how imgur came to be.
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