[DanTheManPR]

This is going to be incredibly damaging to forums, in the same way that Photobucket's deletions were. Old forum posts are becoming a ghost town of broken image links.

[3nf]

This was already happening (as early as 2019), but on a forum-by-forum referer ban for hotlinked images.

Imgur support wouldn't respond to forum owners.

https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2912540