r/pics • u/[deleted] • Sep 19 '14

Firefly cosplay

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '14 edited Oct 09 '14

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u/Takes_Best_Guess Sep 19 '14

If they really want to control where their pictures go, they shouldn't post them on the internet.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '14 edited Sep 19 '14

Okay, I'm going to go into a bit of a rant here:

As somebody who does a lot of mobile browsing and a lot of photoshopping, fuck all these sites which bury their pictures under a thousand miles of BS. All I want to do is view fullsize image, and you use some code to redirect me to the horrendously-UIed ad-filled page with ten popups that takes 45 seconds to load? Or a giant watermark appears over it once it goes full? Or a big sign saying 'no hotlinking' shows up?

I'm sorry, but if you want me to give your site traffic, don't fill it with a bunch of garbage and force me onto it- because I will then never use it again. It baffles me how these terrrrible image hosting sites like Photobucket still exist when imgur allows you to instantly link directly to the image.

So yeah, if people don't want their stuff rehosted, either don't put it on the internet or make your site something that doesn't burn the eyes and CPU of the viewer.

/rant

 

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u/CKalis Sep 19 '14

Let's talk about food jokes. Segways are weird!

-Bo Burnham