BRB, gonna screenshot this thread and put it on imgur and update this post with the link.
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.
I don't get how people are still generating links to the actual image file listed on imgur. That shithole seems to have learned how to always direct you to their full dumpster website instead of just the image
Yeah maybe a year ago they changed the direct linking to bringing you to a landing page. The new owners are determined to drive it into the ground.
A bunch of people started this project https://imgcat.io/
Hmmm sounds suspect tbh. They make a lot of privacy-focused corpo default-template statements like "we won't partner with anyone who will [sell your data]". Yet they're using Cloudflare and their participation links are also 1.- a Google form and 2.- a Discord server (aka a "nu-community").
It is probably just because it became an idea thing last month I think; After ingur fired mods, and started taking down posts about trump etc.
There's nothing built up yet, thus the google forms is my thought.
Oh fuck yeah. Thank you!
I just press and hold on the image to "open image in new tab" and send that url. 60% of the time it works every time.
If you're really interested in seeing imgur content without the tracking, you could use one of the imgur frontends.
Is imgbb still okay?
Isn't imgbb the land of image not available?
Yes, because it had an optional feature to automatically delete the image after a certain amount of days
Tho it defaults to don't delete, so if it disappeared it's due to a feature not a bug.
Nah, get yourself a VPN.
Imgur blocks my VPN. It's one of the reasons I hate them. I'm not going to poke a hole in my network just to see what your ass was too lazy to actually post to your instance.
I'd be curious to hear how these dots are connected for you.
I assumed you can't see the pictures because you're in the UK.
Nah, I've blocklisted them at the router level because of the nauseating amount of ads and trackers they employ.
The body of my post is suggesting this should be common practice for these reasons, and people should use something else
If you use mobile you can also install TrackerControl from F-Droid (not the playstore version, playstore version is tracker viewing only)
It creates an internal VPN so it can block blacklisted ad and tracker sites. It made browsing Imgur bearable.
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