They changed that behavior years ago.

izzydata · on March 20, 2023

What do you mean? Copying a direct link is still an option on Imgur.

https://i.imgur.com/snQQ0Dt.jpg

pr0zac · on March 20, 2023

What they're referring to is how if I click that link it gets redirected to the image's viewing page instead of opening the image file directly.

izzydata · on March 20, 2023

But it doesn't. You can even embed it on another page and just use Imgur bandwidth with no ads. What you are referring to is the following link.

https://imgur.com/snQQ0Dt

This on the other hand is a direct image link with no ads. You would have no idea this is on Imgur other than the url.

https://i.imgur.com/snQQ0Dt.jpg

slig · on March 21, 2023

I guess it depends on your user agent. For me, and I believe the majority of users, after clicking on your second link ending in `.jpg`, it redirects to the first link where there are ads.

izzydata · on March 21, 2023

Actually maybe it depends on adblockers or scriptblockers now that I think about it. Although you could still embed it on another website.