i see what you did there!

it was very easy to find, here:

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/page-visit-counter/

there will probably be others as well.

you've formatted the URL incorrectly.

there are probably few free file hosting services that allow hotlinking. It's just not a sustainable business model, especially if you have an exposed API wherein not even the uploader will have to come to your site. There are also a lot of copyright infringement liabilities regarding public file sharing services.

Free file hosting typically requires certain concessions, such as:

not being able to hotlink
being restricted to specific file types/sizes
limited storage space
not being able to manipulate the data
needing to upload via their webpage or custom software (that potentially contains spyware)
download quotas
Dropbox supposedly allows hotlinking, and I know they have an API, but I'm not sure it's an API that allows you to use it like S3, as it's generally marketed as a personal backup/file sharing solution, not an application data storage service. But I suppose you could give it a try.

For an image hosting service that allows hotlinking, StackExchange uses imgur. I'd imagine Flickr probably has a similar API.

For document (PDF, slideshows, Word/ODF docs, etc.) hosting, I don't think there are any that allow hotlinking, but between Slideshare, Scribd, PDFCast.org, .docstoc, 280slides, AuthorSTREAM, Box.net, Google Docs, and 4shared, you can probably find one that allows you to embed them into your webpage so that the user can at least read the PDF on your page.

To meet all of your requirements, your best bet is to look at paid storage. The simplest solution would be to just use your regular web hosting, since most web hosts these days have fairly generous storage quotas/rates, and direct access and manipulation of the files would be no problem. Otherwise, cloud storage like S3 would probably be the next best option. With S3 you can also use CloudFront as your CDN. Otherwise, you could try these:

Nimbus I/O - a similar web service from SpiderOak, a company that traditionally offers a Dropbox-like file backup/sharing service. They're marketing this as an S3 alternative
Google Cloud Storage - Google's equivalent to S3
iCloud - Apple's cloud computing and cloud storage platform
Windows Azure Storage - Microsoft's equivalent service on the Windows Azure platform
EMC Atmos
OceanStor CSE (Cloud Storage Engine)
Connectria Cloud Storage - advertised as an Amazon-S3-compatible cloud storage service
Many CDNs like Cachefly, Bitgravity, Akamai, etc. probably have direct upload APIs as well.

They're not banning all crypto ads, only ICO related ones.

I've noticed this where people sign up for twitter bounties and facebook bounties. The large majority of them tend to be "follow back" accounts. So you have  people with thousands of followers, retweeting to people who retweet to people who retweet to people and hardly any of them are actual ICO investors. It's one big circle jerk and they all seem to follow each other.

It's the same on facebook, sharing posts to people who all do the same. Then you have the chancers who have just created accounts on social media and on here, hoping to get something for literally nothing. Leeches.

I understand that these people want their share of tokens from the bounty, but to be honest, they do nothing to earn anything in my opinion.

Yes, it's a free way for ICO's to get exposure, but is that kind of exposure worth it? it's often useless when people are just sharing info with "follow back" accounts and none will actually invest.

The situation has got worse this year than it was last year but all these people wanting to join bounties, i don't think they actually do much at all to warrant anything from it (in the majority)

Listing on exchanges is typically paid for.

KYC is just a process for verifying a customer. The info will be kept offsite, securely, and in adherence to GDPR.

They don't convert ETH/Fiat to their own tokens. They will sell eth for fiat to fund the project. They will create their own ERC20 token and issue it to investors. This is either done at the time of transaction or at a later specified date.

It's entirely possible for an ICO to do all of this. They may employ other companies for certain roles. Publicity, PR, translation etc. The majority of ICO's however will do everything in house and by the team.

ICO listing sites can cost quite a bit also. Some as much as 10 btc just to list.

whats your view?

EOS is not decentralised. they took the main net off line the other day. did you know that if you owned and were able to release crypto kitties on EOS it would have cost you millions in smart contract useage fees? absolute joke.

It's most definitely used for airdrops and nothing to worry about.

We utilise the ENS (Ethereum Name System) with our own name which will be important for our soon to be released project. What is interesting is that as with DNS names (www), the ENS also allows you to have sub domain names. So for example, for our name, p2pdotbet.eth, we can also have:

football.p2pdotbet.eth
tennis.p2pdotbet.eth
priceprediction.p2pdotbet.eth

or, we could also allow our users to have their own names such as:

aarav.p2pdotbet.eth
ahmed.p2pdotbet.eth
mohammed.p2pdotbet.eth

These names will undoubtedly become very important in future especially for Web 3.0 and anyone who doesnt get the best name early, such as the ones being offered here, will probably have to settle for poor names. In the same way as early adopters of hotmail were able to get ahmed@hotmail.com, when all the best names are gone, they will have to take something like ahmed2361@hotmail.com which is not as good at all. That's how I see it anyway.

if it does, it won't in our lifetimes.

if you wanted to you could always buy followers which may help increase the number of real followers you have.

no, we are not living in a black hole. it's very simple to do a google search and find out scientific information about this. Why ask on here when you have the rest of the internet to ask questions and find scientific papers?

buy and read any of the books by kip thorne

https://www.amazon.com/Kip-S.-Thorne/e/B000AQ8VJQ

maybe you'll learn something.

Quake 3 Arena

i think they do a very good job.

This sounds like a great idea!