Imgur has blocked the UK

Feek · Tuesday at 08:40

Haggisman said:
As @Kenai has pointed out, they've almost certainly looked at the options and decided that just region blocking the UK is easier and cheaper than jumping through the hoops to comply with the OSA or risk multi-million pound fines.

But there are no hoops to jump through. They removed all adult content and don't even allow partial nudity any more. They have literally nothing to worry about.

deviation · Tuesday at 08:43

Werewolf said:
if that's the one i think it is, it kills the images after about a week to the point where it's useless on a forum already.

Only if you set it to do so when uploading the image

Rilot · Tuesday at 08:45

This is what I just don't understand about the OSA. I mean, VPNs are a thing.
As someone who's job it is to filter and monitor the internet for students in a school, I well know that anything put in place that doesn't completely block all VPNs as well is completely pointless. I even restrict all traffic on port 53 to only our DNS and Cloudflare due to the number of VPNs that tunnel over that port to disguise themselves as DNS traffic.

JonRGV250 · Tuesday at 08:48

@Feek & the other mods/admin
Is it worth a sticky on the pic heavy threads mentioning this and legal ways to make sure we can all carry on as we were before this?

throwaway4372 · Tuesday at 08:50

Rilot said:
This is what I just don't understand about the OSA. I mean, VPNs are a thing.

Step 1. Invest in VPN companies
Step 2. Make law that pushes people to buy vpns
Step 3. Profit

200sols · Tuesday at 08:52

Feek said:
But there are no hoops to jump through. They removed all adult content and don't even allow partial nudity any more. They have literally nothing to worry about.

They obviously deemed otherwise. This is the problem with outlier policies like this, it's far easier for companies to just turn off the UK rather than comply.

Feek · Tuesday at 08:54

JonRGV250 said:
@Feek & the other mods/admin
Is it worth a sticky on the pic heavy threads mentioning this and legal ways to make sure we can all carry on as we were before this?

We're looking into what we can do here.

Uther · Tuesday at 08:54

RxR said:
Images on the forum are still visible to Aussies, and non-uk netizens.

Saving us from ourselves. such a load of ********. I give up.

adidan · Tuesday at 08:55

BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

Seriously, is anybody surprised? People running websites probably see if t as more trouble than it's worth to allow the UK access.

Raymond Lin · Tuesday at 08:56

So, what alternatives are out there?

Uther · Tuesday at 08:58

Rilot said:
Oh, they've blocked the entire site. Can't even get on the front page.

Yes, I had a fair bit on there too that I moved from photobucket. This ******** country.

Glanza · Tuesday at 09:01

Certainly annoying as it was my go to image host for the last 10+ years and I did use it fairly often on here and now unless your a VPN you won't be able to see embedded images from imgur.

Will have to look at a new hosting site, the joys!

GravyMonster · Tuesday at 09:03

Raymond Lin said:
So, what alternatives are out there?

Self hosting. ImgBB and PostImg are absolutely useless. They delete images after X days, and have tiny bandwidth limits that get rinsed in minutes here.

marc2003 · Tuesday at 09:07

Now that the children are taken of and are perfectly safe, how about protecting our stupider adults from facebook/x/etc. Something tells me that is not going to happen...

NickK · Tuesday at 09:09

More fun that I can’t delete my imgur account or request GDPR deletion

.. so I suspect there’s going to be some fines levied out for non-compliance in not enabling EU/UK citizens to delete their data..

Guest2 · Tuesday at 09:09

Ive been using it since it started in 2011/2012 to host pics primarily for this forum.
Joke of a country. What are the alternatives please?

Rob_B · Tuesday at 09:09

Wow, they really went nuclear didn't they, oh well, it's worth it FOR THE CHILDREN

/s just in case

Conscript · Tuesday at 09:11

NickK said:
More fun that I can’t delete my imgur account or request GDPR deletion .. so I suspect there’s going to be some fines levied out for non-compliance in not enabling EU/UK citizens to delete their data..

Yes, I just tried to access the website and cant. If the website is useless for me now, then I at least want to delete all my data and close the account :/ The annoying thing is that I only really use it for this forum.
Utterly ridiculous this OSA thing.

Guest2 · Tuesday at 09:15

Conscript said:
Yes, I just tried to access the website and cant. If the website is useless for me now, then I at least want to delete all my data and close the account :/ The annoying thing is that I only really use it for this forum.
Utterly ridiculous this OSA thing.

Same, guess we can just use a VPN to login, then delete? (or get someone not in the UK to login for us and delete account)

Ayahuasca · Tuesday at 09:16