> 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.

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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.

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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

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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.