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https://imgur.com/8MMET5V - now there are companies that can host things FOR my servants!



Anyone knows how imgur is able to afford that ?


Low cost CDNs like Cloudflare.


Imgur uses Fastly, which I don't think can be classified as low cost.


ads


Even though ad-blockers are ever more common ? (I didn't even think about ads, since I never saw them on imgur !)


They have an app which is ad supported, and they are trying to become of a social network like reddit by requiring you to login for more features, and adding upvotes and other interactivity.


It's the same way Google pulled in $180B last year and Facebook made $86B.


AFAIK both of these are using methods that are either deemed acceptable by adblockers (like how Google was using plain blue/black text instead of stroboscopic gif banners), and/or adblockers have trouble with them because they come from the same source ?




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