Great work! Perhaps not the appropriate OSI layer, but would be cool if this could pull the imgur blob from the wayback machine if unavailable on imgur proper. You'd still need this networking setup, as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN.

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1317 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> archive.org is blocked as well in the UK

it isn't

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toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430848 is the thread where I learned of this. I'll have to do more research, thanks.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-...

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2b3a51 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm in the UK and we use 'mobile broadband' for our domestic Internet connection. So a mains powered router box that connects to the local G4 (or G5) mobile data network and provides wifi and a few cat 5 sockets. We don't need to subscribe to a phone line (e.g. last mile supplied by Openreach/BT or fibre from Virgin or whoever). I pay a single flat fee monthly by credit card. It is reasonably fast and meets our modest needs. There is no hard data cap. We average 150 Gb per quarter or so.

archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package.

I've chosen not to unblock for no particular reason. The block sort of makes sense to me because archive.org records a lot of Web sites, some of which may have what is regarded as adult content, and it is unreasonable to expect archive.org to label individual records of sites according to the criteria the UK uses (each country probably has its own set of criteria e.g. gambling Web sites of certain kinds in the US).

archive.org is easily accessible in the UK from most wifi connections in cafes, libraries and, hilariously, colleges (where people under 18 gather in large numbers), and also from domestic adsl or fibre Internet connections.

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ErroneousBosh 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package

That's something to do with your provider. Maybe you need a non-crappy provider.

You do not need to provide any kind of declaration that you're over 18 to access archive.org in the UK.

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2b3a51 3 hours ago | parent [-]

See comment from another UK resident further down. I suspect it depends on the contract you have, and quite possibly when the contract started.

	▲	ErroneousBosh 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It appears to be something to do with using PAYG SIMs for mobile broadband. Back when I lived ten minutes from one of the largest cities in the country I used 4G, but didn't run into this or their CGNAT crap because I tunneled out to a sane ISP. Given that you can buy a SIM that'll give you a couple of hundred GB of data for under a tenner, it seems reasonable that they'd block stuff you didn't want young children getting access to (easily).

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jamesbelchamber 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The op in the thread is wrong, it's not blocked.

Source: am British, on phone.

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exasperaited 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN

I am in the UK.

archive.org is not blocked — not the Library or the Wayback Machine.

ETA: I just checked re: the comment toomuchtodo linked to, and it actually is blocked by default on my mobile phone as adult content, because I've never bothered to disable the adult content lock on that device. I get redirected to a page operated by my mobile network where I can undo the lock by giving them info; I might do that one day, might not.

For non-UK users: UK mobile phone providers all block adult content by default at the account level as a simple parental control measure, and have done for some time, largely because PAYG data is really rather cheap here.

Interesting but not particularly bothersome. Apparently this decision is about eleven years old.