I uploaded a pic and chose thumbnail
No problem and no registration.
I would have excepted the thumb to point to the bigger pic. but it goes back to the site. That is a matter of habit though so I will have to pick the right size.
The service seems to be German - und das ist sehr gut - since they actually have an understanding of the concept of privacy.
I will test this one some more...
And then I found out that this is a US service - so no luck there....
It could be integrated directly in this forum so you only have to click "add photo to post" but if the link always goes to the postimg site instead of to the pic that is not desirable.
No adds though - and that is good.
In terms of flexibility I think imgur.com is better and since bildr.no is up again that is better too - but as we have seen bildr.no can stay down for days without explanation - so that makes it really bad...And they have a lousy privacy policy too.
But then imgur is probably worse so these free services are not free - you are the product. Postimage seems to be the best in that department:
Privacy policy
Privacy policy of postimage.org service:
PostImage.org does not require registration in order to upload images, so it doesn't record any email addresses.
We do not collect any personally identifiable data on people who view images. Hovewer, when visitor uploads image to postimage.org server information about visitor is recorded so in case of abuse of terms of service our staff can easily identify and block offending user. Information about uploader is available only to staff members that do moderation of images, that information will not be displayed anywhere in public or given to anyone.
imgur is selling you:
and we may partner with third party advertisers who may (themselves or through their partners) place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. These cookies enable more customized ads, content or services to be provided to you. To trigger these cookies, we may pass an encrypted or "hashed" (non-human readable) identifier corresponding to your email address to a Web advertising partner, who may place a cookie on your computer. No personally identifiable information is on, or is connected to, these cookies. To opt-out of these cookies, please go to
So don't use smartphones to upload! They are every stalkers wet dream. And never upload a pic of your face (or your bottom for that matter) - they will match it against that camera that blinked when you were speeding....
Imgur does offer a link to opt-out of their traking cookies:
http://privacychoice.org/trackerblock (a general block plugin ; I dunno if it is any good)
All in all postimg might be the best service.