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For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Is it really because "Imgur is cancer," or are you just a UK person butthurt that you got geoblocked because Imgur refused to comply with your government's censorship/attack on privacy?
If it's the latter, go bitch at your MP, not us.
(If it really is the former, understandable and have a nice day.)
Well, I'd say imgur did the people of the UK an unintended solid in that scenario. But I am not located there.
It'd be kind of weird if anyone on SDF doesn't know how to run a VPN client, anyway.
Imgur blocks VPNs, or at least it tries to. The images won’t load when connected to my work VPN. Seems to work fine from Mullvad though so I guess they’re not doing that great on their blocking.
I can use it over Tor. Or at least, can use it without noticeably more circuit changes than usual.
Are you sure your work doesn't just block it?
I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.
For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.
Yeah, I'm not sure what that's about then. Maybe run a VPN over your VPN? Haha.