Using imgur vs slimgur makes no difference here. When you click on a page your browser makes lots of requests, http requests are in plain text where https text makes encrypted text. At a network layer, what you will see when you make an unencrypted request is a DNS request to imgur.com, then a HTTP request for "GET /blah.jpg", and you can see that all on the wire. Making an HTTPS request you will see the DNS request for imgur.com stuff, but the connection to imgur is encrypted so the network operator won't see the GET request. I'd recommend you make this change immediately, and audit the CSS for any other http requests to imgur. from:     background: url(http://i.imgur.com/blah.jpg);  to:     background: url(https://i.imgur.com/blah.jpg);  Log's will still show people hitting imgur but won't show the requested URI. Once you're done please hide this post and I'll edit the text later so hammy network operators don't get any idea's. If you do want to use slimur, here's a link for the same image:  https://slimgur.com/images/2015/06/30/44c67db4c71b47f672a1dc5aad4f7be9.jpg