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.

  • starman@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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

    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.