| ▲ | bennyp101 4 hours ago |
| "Is this overkill for viewing the occasional Imgur image? Probably." From the last couple of weeks of researching some stuff, it makes perfect sense - I keep stumbling across blogs and documentation that uses Imgur, and it's really quite annoying that I can't see the screenshot or image that is being referenced. It hasn't /quite/ hit the point to put something in place, but this is super helpful for the final straw - when it comes! |
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| ▲ | jamesbelchamber 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break. |
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| ▲ | jsheard 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break. Tale as old as time, long-running forums are graveyards of dead Photobucket, Tinypic and Imageshack embeds. Imgur has lasted longer than most but the cycle will probably repeat eventually, especially since they were acquired by faceless corpos a few years ago. | | |
| ▲ | rafabulsing 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I've said before that the age of an internet user can be estimated by how many free image hosting services they have seen come and go, like rings on a tree trunk. | |
| ▲ | bennyp101 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things | | |
| ▲ | NooneAtAll3 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > waves hands things government censorship called it for what it is | | |
| ▲ | jsheard 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The Online Safety Act is clear-cut censorship but that's not why Imgur left the UK. They were facing fines for violating the UKs data protection laws, specifically a set of rules that were introduced years before the OSA was even passed. Their parent company hasn't pulled any of their other services from the UK either, which you'd expect them to do if their goal was to protest or avoid the OSA. |
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| ▲ | NooneAtAll3 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | makes me thankful for imgur deleting anonymous uploads a year or 2 ago that made multiple forums I've been on rush to download everything to their servers |
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| ▲ | tim333 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've found it a bit harder than I thought to bypass but veepn free with the location set to Singapore kind of works, if slowly. |
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| ▲ | muyuu an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| it will certainly not stop at Imgur also, if foreign servers notice no real loss of traffic because people just circumvent draconian censorship measures from authoritarian regimes, then they can more safely ignore them without real repercussions the EU seems to be following soon, so it's important that people have readily available tools so the power dynamics change and it doesn't become economically unfeasible to refuse censorship pressures |
