Add rimgu redirect support for imgur

[3nprob]

imgur.com is particularly overwhelming with tracking scripts and 3rd-party requests. A new project that fills the gap for embeddeds as well as web URLs is https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu.

This adds imgur/rimgu support to Privacy Redirect.

[miku86]

Hey there,

great project, thanks for your efforts!

The instances list seems to be empty and the project looks very new.

Are there currently any instances you know of?

Because I think we should have at least some instances that run the service before adding it to Privacy Redirect.

[3nprob]

@miku86 Thanks for the kind words :)

Are there currently any instances you know of?

No, the project was just published this week (it's new but works quite well) and as the author I am not aware of any public instances.

I figure it will be off by default and initially useful for people running their own instance. Hardcoded instances can be added when public ones start being available. If the maintainer(s) think that lack of public instances is a showstopper I guess we'll have to put this one on hold for now

[EgosOwn]

Hi there, I recently made an imgur front end too (only a few days older than 3nprob's). I made it with privacy redirect in mind so i would be disappointed if I couldn't get it integrated, but rimgu looks good too and has more features.3nprob, maybe you want to collaborate? I don't know if dual projects would be accepted for 1 site in this extension, but i wouldn't have a problem with it.

Anyone have thoughts?

https://imgin.voidnet.tech/
https://git.voidnet.tech/kev/imgin

[3nprob]

Hi there, I recently made an imgur front end too (only a few days older than 3nprob's). I made it with privacy redirect in mind so i would be disappointed if I couldn't get it integrated, but rimgu looks good too and has more features.3nprob, maybe you want to collaborate? I don't know if dual projects would be accepted for 1 site in this extension, but i wouldn't have a problem with it.

Anyone have thoughts?

https://imgin.voidnet.tech/ https://git.voidnet.tech/kev/imgin

Convergent evolution eh :D

Just my 5c: I always found it a bit unfortunate that PrivacyRedirect refers to the re-implementation projects names ("Bibliogram redirects" rather than "Instagram redirects"). As e.g. Piped or Yotter can be used just fine as "Invidious". I assume this is to avoid trademark/copyright cases a la https://www.techspot.com/news/91650-facebook-bans-sends-cease-desist-letter-developer-unfollow.html.

I'll take a look at your project as well - regardless of if they stay separate or merge I think as long as they're separate we should try to keep them behaving identically from an API perspective so they should be interchangeable in Privacy Redirect.

(BTW I wrote you on matrix; maybe we can continue OT there)

[miku86]

Hi there, I recently made an imgur front end too (only a few days older than 3nprob's). I made it with privacy redirect in mind so i would be disappointed if I couldn't get it integrated, but rimgu looks good too and has more features.3nprob, maybe you want to collaborate? I don't know if dual projects would be accepted for 1 site in this extension, but i wouldn't have a problem with it.

Anyone have thoughts?

https://imgin.voidnet.tech/ https://git.voidnet.tech/kev/imgin

Hey there,

great work!

There is a discussion about the naming: #302.
IMHO it doesn't matter which application/frontend we can use as long as it does the job.

I think we should keep the extension open to all kind of implementations that do the job,
e.g. we already use both libreddit and teddit as redirects.

[SimonBrazell]

Looks great @3nprob I'll have a play with it now.

[SimonBrazell]

Not sure I can push this live without at least one instance though, people will enable it and wonder why it's not working.

[ghost]

It's not "official" by any means, but I have https://i.actionsack.com up as an rimgu instance.

Docker container: https://github.com/xnaas/docker-rimgu/pkgs/container/rimgu

I've opened a number of issues in the source repository as well to maybe inspire some more action, an instance list, etc.

Edit: I host a number of services with decent uptime. 😃

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Edit (2022-04-01): Moved to rimgo instead. My periodically+automatically updating docker container for it.

[vymague]

How does it compare with rimgo? That one has an instance list. https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo#instances