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Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Great work! Perhaps not the appropriate OSI layer, but would be cool if this could pull the imgur blob from the wayback machine if unavailable on imgur proper. You'd still need this networking setup, as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN.

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by 1317 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Great work! Perhaps not the appropriate OSI layer, but would be cool if this could pull the imgur blob from the wayback machine if unavailable on imgur proper. You'd still need this networking setup, as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN.

> archive.org is blocked as well in the UK

it isn't

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by toomuchtodo »

1317 wrote: post #3
toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Great work! Perhaps not the appropriate OSI layer, but would be cool if this could pull the imgur blob from the wayback machine if unavailable on imgur proper. You'd still need this networking setup, as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN.

> archive.org is blocked as well in the UK it isn't

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430848 is the thread where I learned of this. I'll have to do more research, thanks.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-...

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by exasperaited »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Great work! Perhaps not the appropriate OSI layer, but would be cool if this could pull the imgur blob from the wayback machine if unavailable on imgur proper. You'd still need this networking setup, as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN.

> as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN

I am in the UK.

archive.org is not blocked — not the Library or the Wayback Machine.

ETA: I just checked re: the comment toomuchtodo linked to, and it actually is blocked by default on my mobile phone as adult content, because I've never bothered to disable the adult content lock on that device. I get redirected to a page operated by my mobile network where I can undo the lock by giving them info; I might do that one day, might not.

For non-UK users: UK mobile phone providers all block adult content by default at the account level as a simple parental control measure, and have done for some time, largely because PAYG data is really rather cheap here.

Interesting but not particularly bothersome. Apparently this decision is about eleven years old.

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by bennyp101 »

"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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