Imgur has blocked the UK

Raymond Lin said:
Eventually the UK will find out we need them more than they need us.
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I really don't think that is true and I think imgur is making a big mistake that they could regret in the future, or back track on soon.

What imgur has done is created a vacancy in the market. The UK now needs an image uploader like imgur. Someone can now create that and have instant access to a very hungry UK market.

As more UK users use that new site, it will spread around the world. More and more people will discover this new image hosting site, and may even prefer it, so switch over, and now imgur has a strong competitor to deal with. Imgur recently had weeks long of protest from the users due to how annoyed they were with how imgur was run. Another event like that, with a strong competitor, could be serious trouble for imgur.

There's a reason why in particular tech companies can at times buy up competitors and aggressively want to own as much of the market share as possible, as they know as soon as users stsrt going else where it could be the slow end for them.

Imagine Google leaving the UK market. As small of an audience we arr in the UK in comparison to other countries, that one action could be the end of Google, as like i said, a competitor will instantly jump in to the hungry UK market, and then they could spread and it just takes over.

At the end of the day, this is clearly why brexit was a bloody stupid decision.
 
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I'm never sure how imgur made money anyway so I'm not so sure that this gap is hugely profitable especially with the new rules (i.e. why they have left the UK in the first place)
 
andy_mk3 said:
Just finished making an iOS shortcut the same I had for Imgur. Which uses the API to upload an image, get the url and copy it to the clipboard inside img tags. All with one button press. That’s my imgur replacement sorted.

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Could you share that please? It’d be really useful.

/edit - sorry, I missed that it’s to your own server. Damn.
 
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unwashed potato! said:
I really don't think that is true and I think imgur is making a big mistake that they could regret in the future, or back track on soon.

What imgur has done is created a vacancy in the market. The UK now needs an image uploader like imgur. Someone can now create that and have instant access to a very hungry UK market.

As more UK users use that new site, it will spread around the world. More and more people will discover this new image hosting site, and may even prefer it, so switch over, and now imgur has a strong competitor to deal with. Imgur recently had weeks long of protest from the users due to how annoyed they were with how imgur was run. Another event like that, with a strong competitor, could be serious trouble for imgur.

There's a reason why in particular tech companies can at times buy up competitors and aggressively want to own as much of the market share as possible, as they know as soon as users stsrt going else where it could be the slow end for them.

Imagine Google leaving the UK market. As small of an audience we arr in the UK in comparison to other countries, that one action could be the end of Google, as like i said, a competitor will instantly jump in to the hungry UK market, and then they could spread and it just takes over.

At the end of the day, this is clearly why brexit was a bloody stupid decision.
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We are small potatoes in the world, the idea that this country is important and a major player in the world....and trying to police and dictate the internet...is borderline narcissistic. The guy who invented the WWW might be British but the companies that control it, are not. We are nothing more than a group of users, and a portion at that. Larger than Monaco, sure, but we don't even rank top 10 in the number of users. We are behind places like Iran, Vietnam.

Citation - https://explodingtopics.com/blog/countries-internet-users
 
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This just sucks for the uk, the rest of the world will continue uploading content to forums with it that we just cannot see, making large portions of the web unusable for us. Even if we switch to a different hosting provider, the rest of the world won't.
 
I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if all the big sites did the same. I'm thinking Tiktok, Facecrack, YouTube, Instagram, and X.
I reckon there would be riots.
 
andy_mk3 said:
I've just set up Slink on my server to try. Like the simplicity of it.

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Ta. I just set this up on my synology box with minimal effort. One oddity though is that even if you set images to private, they are still viewable publicly via the shared link.

e: I posted a comment to the author (reddit) and his response is that this is by design but there is a feature update in the backlog to add extra security.
 
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Angst said:
This just sucks for the uk, the rest of the world will continue uploading content to forums with it that we just cannot see, making large portions of the web unusable for us. Even if we switch to a different hosting provider, the rest of the world won't.
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Thankfully all the forums I use that I want to see photos on host their own photos.
 
unwashed potato! said:
I really don't think that is true and I think imgur is making a big mistake that they could regret in the future, or back track on soon.

What imgur has done is created a vacancy in the market. The UK now needs an image uploader like imgur. Someone can now create that and have instant access to a very hungry UK market.

As more UK users use that new site, it will spread around the world. More and more people will discover this new image hosting site, and may even prefer it, so switch over, and now imgur has a strong competitor to deal with. Imgur recently had weeks long of protest from the users due to how annoyed they were with how imgur was run. Another event like that, with a strong competitor, could be serious trouble for imgur.

There's a reason why in particular tech companies can at times buy up competitors and aggressively want to own as much of the market share as possible, as they know as soon as users stsrt going else where it could be the slow end for them.

Imagine Google leaving the UK market. As small of an audience we arr in the UK in comparison to other countries, that one action could be the end of Google, as like i said, a competitor will instantly jump in to the hungry UK market, and then they could spread and it just takes over.

At the end of the day, this is clearly why brexit was a bloody stupid decision.
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Actually, it's exactly that kind of arrogant "we're think we're far more important than we actually are" attitude which made Brexit so easy to sell in the first place. "They need us more than we need them" was banded around many times in the lead up to it...

Raymond Lin said:
We are small potatoes in the world, the idea that this country is important and a major player in the world....and trying to police and dictate the internet...is borderline narcissistic. The guy who invented the WWW might be British but the companies that control it, are not. We are nothing more than a group of users, and a portion at that. Larger than Monaco, sure, but we don't even rank top 10 in the number of users. We are behind places like Iran, Vietnam.

Citation - https://explodingtopics.com/blog/countries-internet-users
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Quite. Although I'd take those figures with a pinch of salt, since they reckon in the UK there are 67.8 million internet users out of a population of 65.6 million...
 
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Haggisman said:
Quite. Although I'd take those figures with a pinch of salt, since they reckon in the UK there are 67.8 million internet users out of a population of 65.6 million...
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Ha, yes. But my point is still the same.

Even if we take raw numbers, out of 8billion people, we are 0.75% of the population. Yes I know not everyone in the world is online out of 8 billion but even if we make it to 1%....

A company would rather cater to the other 99% than the 1%. The idea that the 1% can dictate the 99%...that's rather narcissistic and arrogant. Especially the companies, the big tech firms are not UK companies.

Rather than we threaten to block them, they can cut us off. Pretend this island don't exists. They still have 99% of the market to make money out of.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Ha, yes. But my point is still the same.

Even if we take raw numbers, out of 8billion people, we are 0.75% of the population. Yes I know not everyone in the world is online out of 8 billion but even if we make it to 1%....

A company would rather cater to the other 99% than the 1%. The idea that the 1% can dictate the 99%...that's rather narcissistic and arrogant. Especially the companies, the big tech firms are not UK companies.
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Oh absolutely, we're tiny fish in a very big pond!
 
Haggisman said:
Oh absolutely, we're tiny fish in a very big pond!
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We are quite wealthy fish.

Anyway it is still the tail waving the dog. If they can do without our business for reasons, I am sure the hole will be filled elsewhere. Most if what I have seen on imjur is fairly rubbish and won't be missed by me.
 
unwashed potato! said:
What imgur has done is created a vacancy in the market. The UK now needs an image uploader like imgur. Someone can now create that and have instant access to a very hungry UK market.
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but the new company has the same problem as imgur protecting minors from inappropriate images (even on embedded content)
Who in europe would continue to use imgur there, with the same prospect in the offing.

In eu, even though imgur their doesn't seem to be currently designated as a person of interest, like for imgur in uk fines can be applied for past offences

e: .. corollary what's the point in having a uk forum giving ongoing support to links that cannot be viewed in that country
 
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