Why am I forced to use Gravatar for my profile avatar? [duplicate]

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Can we use non-gravatar avatars?

Why am I being forced to use Gravatar when I want to upload an avatar to my profile?

Is it possible to just upload an avatar image directly to my profile without creating a Gravatar account?

Answer 1

There is no way to upload avatars to your profile directly, without going though Gravatar.