Of course the phone OS people are going to do this. Judging from a few years of Live PD, every single person getting pulled over never ever has a valid ID, but always always has a cell phone that they clutch like their life depended on it.
Anything in the article is just a detail that is being hashed out.
Baby steps...
They rolled out a feature where you can filter out political posts, and it's become the only place I can go to just enjoy some mindless scrolling.
There's still a ton of political posters who never tag, but you can mute them. And then there's the "look how dumb those people are" circle jerks, that aren't actually political. But all in all, I have a pretty decent quality to circle jerk ratio.
not really scalable
Most people who use imgur just hotlink - what's the incentive for a company to buy or start a new imgur?