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.
Vgy delete the EXIF data, Imgur dont and know in any moment where its images are. It’s not only the homepage of Imgur, it’s among others the tracking pixel from facebook and the keylogging of TowerData which came with the sharelink which they know and the image. See the complete list of the companies which receive data from Imgur. It’s one of the worst list I’ve ever seen. Thanks, even better GDrive. Blacklight can only scan websites, not files, for these you need other tools to analyze it.