Imgur has blocked the UK
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The problem is that the UK...unlike China's firewall, we don't have our own IT infrastructure to support it, we are all too reliant on external companies. They are all too happy to just abandon this tiny island than to try and comply to it.
True, but it's pick your poison here.
Proton say they don't log and are independently audited to back that up, could they be chatting crap, sure. On the other hand, thanks to the snoopers charter, my isp is 100% logging and storing connection records, that a huge number of goverment agencies can look at and then knowing this country, left on a laptop on a bench after they are done rifling through them
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imgbox probably others Which is the preferred one for this forum
China's Great Firewall is mostly sold and supported by a private firm, not the state.
I'm just talking from a pure technology perspective, the statement 'VPN is more private/secure' is simply wrong and vastly misunderstood. Like you say, pick your poison.True, but it's pick your poison here.
Proton say they don't log and are independently audited to back that up, could they be chatting crap, sure. On the other hand, thanks to the snoopers charter, my isp is 100% logging and storing connection records, that a huge number of goverment agencies can look at and then knowing this country, left on a laptop on a bench after they are done rifling through them
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they only care about add revenue etc, why make sight wide changes behind the curtains to satisfy a tiny island with an internet population of what 30-40m people, probably only about 20mil if that who use it enough to justify targeted adverts
In the grand scheme of things we are an irrelevant minority
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My point is that China has 1.4bil people, so it is much bigger audience and user base for any company to justify setting up an shop inside and even without outside users, it'll easily be profitable.
We are trying to change the laws on the internet basically and companies are far too willing to abandon this market than to comply with it.
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Keep in mind that a VPN will only apply to you, anything you share via imgur won't be seen by anyone else that isn't on a VPN from the UK, which is most people.
Sorry, I've just checked over then last few posts, so might have missed some good stuff, but even if imgur then works for you, probably most of the people on this forum wont see what you're trying to show the, surely?
@mrk beat me to it....
I'd like the slap the person who came up with this crap. I dont care... just load the website! if i could globally accept all cookies and never be asked again, id tick that box
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I checked some of the replies here and right clicking on other people's signature to see what you're all using. Hell, I can see that @Armadillo is still using Photobucket. Blast from the past!
Anyway, I'm now using imgbb.com and it seems fine. 32MB limit for free accounts.
Use just like before
Anyway, I'm now using imgbb.com and it seems fine. 32MB limit for free accounts.
Use just like before
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True, but it's pick your poison here.
Proton say they don't log and are independently audited to back that up, could they be chatting crap, sure. On the other hand, thanks to the snoopers charter, my isp is 100% logging and storing connection records, that a huge number of goverment agencies can look at and then knowing this country, left on a laptop on a bench after they are done rifling through them
Yeah - while a bit of a pain why you don't routinely route your traffic through a VPN unless for example you are on holiday and it is the lesser of 2 evils, though the bigger VPN providers are unlikely to do anything too dodgy intentionally due to the impact on their reputation and hence income.
If you want to avoid say reputational damage should your porn habits get linked to you and leaked then disposable email + Proton Free (recommend either donating or also setting up a separate paid account to support them) ideally setup in a virtual machine say Ubuntu in VirtualBox - can even setup a preview/live environment ready to go which starts fresh in the same state each time with nothing from the previous session stored.
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Your sig isn't appearing for me. Broken already.
I use google drive quite a bit these days for my side hustle. ive often wondered my i can link images to my google drive. is there a technical reason why we couldnt just do that? and the apple variant that the apple people use?
i dont use imgur very often and i hate the layout of it, it always takes me ten minutes to find the right link that works with the forums
i dont use imgur very often and i hate the layout of it, it always takes me ten minutes to find the right link that works with the forums
i dont think if you can embed images directly from google drive.
you can share stuff on there via a link so only people with the link can access it, but they probably need to visit the actual google drive site even if its just an image.
all the other image providers will likely start to disapear instead of comply with our gov too.
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