New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Imgur Replacement

Ask HN: Imgur Replacement
3 by ev1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
They are now doing heavy cross site tracking, loading ads from dozens of domains, and no longer allow uploads unless you whitelist several ads/analytics/tracking domains that also request canvas and WebGL and microphone data. There are/were also autoplaying loud video ads "while you wait" on top of all the tracking. Is there a simple-ish alternative for the direct link occasional image upload, ideally one I can just Cmd+V into a web page? I do this so rarely it's not worth setting up a webserver. It would be helpful to offer a few recs for non-technical friends too; it'd be ideal if it strips timestamp/EXIF data too as a side effect like imgur did. Most of my uploads are demonstration screenshots via Snipping Tool, so they usually don't exist on the filesystem, just clipboard. some I've tried: - ibb.co tries their hardest to not give you a direct link, only thumbnail w/link to their site. - photobucket and tinypic no longer exist. - dropbox requires account and can't easily be uploaded to