Tecknojock
Keeping the world running
I thought right click-> inspect page did not include anything but the html file.No, the unpacked files (if you ctrl+s a webpage) are 460 kb, about half of that file are javascripts. I just thought that it's rather large for a forum page. If you take page properties (right click -> inspect page (or smth similar), then sizes you get are way smaller.
It's harder like that, yes, but hosts have bandwidth limits to user (anyone remember photobucket's "user has exceeded daily bandwidth limit", I saw that constantly in many threads on this forum, in paradox forums and even in taleworlds forums). Also there are commercial and juridical problems (is the image host hosted content being used in generating revenue? They want a share!)
Those are annoying, but there are plenty of hosts without bandwith alloutment. (DA and Imgur off the top of my head.)
As for the second issue, the hosted content isnt being used to generate revenue any more than when their services are used to post an image on the forum. Its not like they are being used to host banner ads and such.