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.