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Spectacle - Imgur store images forever, unable to delete

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abc72656
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Hello, it is risky privacy-wise to give only one option of online screenshot image sharing to a service imgur.com where image is stored for ever and can not be removed!

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/quest ... ded-images
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/co ... on_period/

KDE Spectacle 20.12.3

You should place the warning or allow user removal or replace by a service that has privacy in mind, ideally where user can set custom retention period like 5, 2 years, 6 months, 1 month.

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When I upload an image to imgur, I am presented with both the image url and a removal url as a notification:
https://i.imgur.com/SaZst5I.png
This is on 22.08.2, but I have seen and used this for a while now, I can't recall when it was added specifically.
The privacy issues of sharing a screenshot to an explicitly publicly viewable source are debatable of course, but I think those are as much on the user choosing to do so to begin with.


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claydoh wrote:When I upload an image to imgur, I am presented with ... removal url

So when i get back to my image later like 1 or 60 days after sharing, where i can conveniently find the removal URL?
Even if that URL is not unfriendly buried. The option to let content expire for privacy reason is important. Or there be alternative image sharing site that support it. Offcourse i mean enabled by default without the need to somehow install it - currently i see "More Online Services" menu entry and under it entry "NO KIPI plugins available"(not clickable to learn how to fix it). 👎 This is stable version of the Debian with latest KDE from Deb. repo.


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