Title: avoid unsplash
Last modified: July 25, 2020

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# avoid unsplash

 *  [Tim Embler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonparity/)
 * (@nonparity)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-unsplash/)
 * I used to use and love Unsplash but this plugin gives me pause and ultimately
   I have decided to no longer use Unsplash after all these years.
 * First a couple months ago I received a DMCA notice for an unsplash image which
   I resolved and did not think too much of at the time(just a one off incident)
   but that combined with how this plugin works(which causes a slower image load
   time) and the new license Unsplash is using is enough to make me stop utilizing
   them.
 * On the technical side I installed this plugin on a development server. Used an
   image and ran a few speed tests. I disabled the plugin and ran those same speed
   tests using the same image and the results of those tests came out faster. I 
   do use a CDN as well so it may just be that my CDN out performs what they are
   using but I do not want to suffer a performance loss to use an unsplash image.

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