Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly

by goranmoomin • 2 years ago

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ssahoo• 2 years ago

It's a shame that we are getting to a place to have an extension for each site to avoid dark patterns. May be just all in one extension just like Greasemonkey.

latexr2• 2 years ago

May be just all in one extension

StopTheMadness is kind of that.

https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/

Miraste2• 2 years ago

It's unfortunate bordering on ironic that both of these are available only through the App Store.

RockRobotRock2• 2 years ago

Dark patterns like trying to make money? Most people seem to agree that hotlinking is bad, but that's pretty much was imgur has exclusively been used for since its inception.

account424• 2 years ago

Most people seem to agree that hotlinking is bad

Not at all.

but that's pretty much was imgur has exclusively been used for since its inception

It's what imgur was built for and how it attracted users in the first place.

matheusmoreira• 2 years ago

We should just have custom clients for every website. Just simple HTTP clients that talk to the remote servers directly and pulls and displays the data we want.

pavel_lishin2• 2 years ago

Sounds like an app, not an extension. This would be nice to have in Firefox... and for Tumblr images, too.

ihuman• 2 years ago

It’s an app because that’s the only way to distribute iOS safari extensions

pavel_lishin2• 2 years ago

Ah, I didn't know that.

lucb1e2• 2 years ago

App: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ensoft.imgurviewer/

Not a perfect experience but easily preferable over the original webpage and works for more than just imgur

beeboobaa3• 2 years ago

Shouldn't this have been a firefox mobile extension?

latexr2• 2 years ago

As per the page, the author made it to fix a personal annoyance. It makes sense they made it work for whatever browser they use.

hollow-moe2• 2 years ago

There's also alternative frontends like Rimgo : https://codeberg.org/rimgo/rimgo Then you can use LibRedirect to redirect all imgur urls to a more friendly frontend. (Now there's the issue of imgur aggressive block of datacenter/vpn IPs but it's another story)

toomuchtodo• 2 years ago

Could pull directly from the Internet Archive if the object exists?

hollow-moe2• 2 years ago

IMO we shouldn't rely on TIA to deliver content because the original source is really bad. They have limited resources and are already being abused by lazy devs, moreover the picture you will get might have been modified to be something else on the archive.

bangaladore2• 2 years ago

LibRedirect is nice, but it often redirects to rate-limited instances. Why is this not checked before redirecting me.

harryf• 2 years ago

Same would be nice for i.redd.it

jchw5• 2 years ago

I believe I'm using this add-on in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/load-reddit-i...

Though, given that I think the solution to this can be generalized, I think it is about time someone made a more general extension that can apply this across a wide variety of sites that misuse the `Accept` header for unwanted behavior.

(Also, since mangling the Accept header is the best way to avoid unwanted WebP/AVIF/HEIC transcodes without fully disabling support for these better image formats, it'd be nice if that was also rolled into such an extension.)

3np2• 2 years ago

that misuse the `Accept` header for unwanted behavior

Is there any other "misuse" to be aware of apart from just serving formats you don't prefer?

lvncelot2• 2 years ago

Shame that the extension doesn't seem to be compatible with Firefox on Android, since Reddit's mobile site is borderline unusable for displaying images, doubly so if you want to zoom/scroll them.

tourmalinetaco• 2 years ago

For iOS you can most likely just get something working with Redirect Web, which from my understanding this app is effectively doing the same thing of redirecting links.

diavolodeejay• 2 years ago

I think you are looking for Sink it for reddit! I have been using it for a while and it works wonderfully

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...

ssiddharth2• 2 years ago

Nice to see my creation out in the wild. Happy to listen to any feature requests! :)

smusamashah• 2 years ago

I am using a chrome extension that modifies headers[1]. It modifies headers for reddit images.

I have these rules defined inside

    url:https://preview.redd.it/, domain:true, sub:true, header:Accept, add:true, modify:false, remove:false, header_value:image/*
    url:https://i.redd.it/, domain:true, sub:true, header:Accept, add:true, modify:false, remove:false, header_value:image/*

With these defined, an image just opens like an image, without any reddit wrapped around it.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/modify-header-value...

keybpo• 2 years ago

Thanks for this. I just threw your comment on Llama and asked for a userscript that would also be compatible with old reddit. It gave me this https://pastebin.com/0d7mhcBu and it's been working fine. I can now middle/right click an image and open it fully in a new tab instead of that new webpage.

persnickety2• 2 years ago

Meanwhile, my entry in the Header Editor extension:

accept image_imgur

Match type: Domain

Match rules: i.imgur.com

Execute type: normal

Header name: accept

Header value: image/avif,image/jxl,image/webp,/;q=0.8

I have a very similar one for i.reddit.com

Together with Redirector, those might be the two most undervalued extensions I'm using.

computerfriend3• 2 years ago

Is this https://github.com/FirefoxBar/HeaderEditor?

persnickety2• 2 years ago

Yes, that's what I'm using.

thefz• 2 years ago

What's different from Imagus, that works on 90% of the sites I visit?

nozzlegear• 2 years ago

Imagus (never heard of it before) is apparently not on Safari while this one is only for Safari.

bangaladore2• 2 years ago

Imagus (atleast how I've used it) just pops up an image if you hover on it. Imagus removes the extra crap when showing you the pop up.

This seems to be if you are given a link to an "image" it displays only the image and not the extra crap.

pynappo• 2 years ago

Are you able to use imagus on the phone? I love imagus too, but the images in this app seem to convey that this is meant for opening imgur links on mobile.

jonplackett• 2 years ago

Please make a Giphy version!!!

bkm• 2 years ago

It's still wild to me how "closed" iOS got browser extensions before Chrome on Android.

redml• 2 years ago

because the most popular extension would be an adblocker

nox101• 2 years ago

it's arguably harder to make an extension system when you can't write your own broswer and you'd have no way to distribute them either because the platform dictator doesn't allow it

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios

nocoiner• 2 years ago

I love this idea for an extension and have wanted something to do exactly this, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I checked the enablement and the permissions, but the imgur test image link still loads the full page.

a1o• 2 years ago

Yeah, it's not working for me too in Safari iPhone, if someone figures it out please reply.

ThrowawayTestr2• 2 years ago

It's pretty amazing imgur has lasted this long. Free image hosts usually have a limited lifespan.

lucb1e2• 2 years ago

Indeed, I thought reddit self-hosting images would be its death for this reason: it's just a moneysink. But it seems to be going well.

Perhaps the rest of the site's traffic is subsidizing what they spend on the image hosting? Or maybe bandwidth and storage costs are finally lower than how much each image costs, given that our eyes haven't gotten any better and so a certain size jpeg is simply good enough?

ThrowawayTestr2• 2 years ago

I imagine deleting all the porn certainly helped

kibibu• 2 years ago

Imgur is a popular social media site in its own right

BlueTemplar• 2 years ago

But it hasn't, while it had a good run, it stopped being an image host in 2023 :

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur

(With screws tightened even more in 2024.)

Before you reply that you technically still can use Imgur, that's also still the case for Imageshack - but you cannot rely on them any more, unless you are a paid user.

chubs• 2 years ago

Does this mean it’s possible to make a safari extension to automatically take you to old.reddit.com whenever you hit a reddit link?

twostorytower• 2 years ago

It is possible. There has been one on Chrome for years I use every day: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect...

nerdo• 2 years ago

For iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...

ssiddharth2• 2 years ago

Just FYI, it's out on Chrome, Firefox and Edge too in addition to MacOS and iPadOS. Links on the site gosinkit[dot]com Disclaimer - I made this.

vinnymac2• 2 years ago

I have been doing this using iOS Shortcuts and a regex for years. Except instead of old I redirect to a redlib instance.

transpute2• 2 years ago

StopTheMadness free iOS browser extension can redirect arbitrary URLs based on regex.

mhuffman• 2 years ago

Just a quick heads up. I missed some DMs on Reddit because I have a FF extension to automatically redirect me to old.reddit.com because the notification indicator at the top wasn't lit.

onionisafruit• 2 years ago

I discovered the same thing, but when I saw the DMs I missed over the years I was glad to have missed them. They were all scammy.

account424• 2 years ago

Sending different Accept headers for <img> and direct requests was a mistake.

Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly

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