Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Most of my internet use is currently on an older laptop. An upgrade is in the works shortly, but some of the photo managers are extremely inefficient, and often just bring my old laptop to a standstill.
To me, it is a huge negative of users that are choosing third-party hosting.
Plus, I don't want your ads, spyware, whatnot because you don't want to upload here.
Wait wait...there's something being missed here.
Users should have control over their content, including hosting their own images and not allowing everything to be silo'd here at BF. As I mentioned before, access to content uploaded to BF is entirely based on the motives of IB. Decentralization was a fundamental aspect of how the Web was designed...be the canonical source of your own information.
tldr; hosting images outside of BF is a good thing
I don't know what you mean by "I don't want your ads, spyware, whatnot because you don't want to upload here".