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.
It might also be good to have a bot that links to Imgin or Rimgo, which are privacy-respecting frontends for Imgur.
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.
Thanks, I’ve been looking for an imgur altenative. I’ll try those suggestions.
You will love it, above all FileCoffee. With the integration in ShareX Desktop and the ShareX complement extension for Browsers, it’s pure magic, with this you can capture, upload and share anything with a mouse click, giving you the FileCoffee link
FileCoffee just refused this picture, citing file type, that shows all the javas it uses. Carbonads; cloudflareinsights; google-analytics. How about pixeldrain.com@lemmy.fornaxian.tech ?
Replace Mb in your post with MB.
- Mb = megabits
- MB = megabytes
- 1MB = 8 Mb
Edit: since some people say that it should be MiB, here is text from file.coffee website:
For those without a file.coffee account can upload files that are up to 15 megabytes in size.
As you can see, megabytes, not mebibytes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, we usually mean the power of two series. For that matter it’s better to be explicit instead of assuming everybody knows.
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.
I know about binary prefixes, but file.coffee website uses mega prefix, not mebi
Oh you mean MiB as in mebibel?
Would rather a bot link to the image itself not an album containing a single image, but I do like the sound of the 2 alternatives.
Filecoffe and vgy.me doesn’t work well with mobile for uploading. I can’t drag and drop. The same problem is with Imgur anyway, but why isn’t there a service to just select a file from storage or URL and upload?
Edit, Nevermind it works when opening it in the external browser.
