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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 chrisjj »

Figs wrote: post #130
jsheard wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> Imgur has lasted longer than most They did a big data purge years ago, and were already enshittified almost a decade before that.

Only "removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account" right?

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

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Post by uyzstvqs »

tymscar wrote: post #111
dom96 wrote: post #87

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Oh, I guarantee you that this has not been touched by any AI. I used to use emdashes all the time, then people thought those were AI telltale signs, so I stopped. I loved making lists. Same thing. Now I’m not allowed to say “key detail”??

Just write correctly in your preferred style, and ignore the anti‑AI hate. You’re allowed to say whatever you want, and you’re allowed to use AI as a tool while writing — there’s nothing wrong with it.

Angry AI-phobic keyboard warriors on the internet don't decide what's right or wrong, or what you're allowed to do.

(Is this very comment AI-generated? Make your guess. Good luck!)

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

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Post by misstuned »

exasperaited wrote: post #6
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…

It seems to differ by provider. When I was with Three it was an irritating process of having to either call up or visit a shop in person and say "I want to look at the naughty pages, please". Another provider (I can't remember which) had a method where you had to supply a credit card number.

I'm with "1p Mobile" now who are a virtual network on EE, and their adult content block is just a toggle in your online account, with no faffing around required - you can just hit the toggle. I presume the idea is that you don't give little Timmy the password to his own account portal, but I don't know what's to stop him getting his own SIM by himself.

With Three, I found the adult content block caused other problems with SSH connections dropping, various random stuff getting blocked and so on, which all went away as soon as I had it disabled, so it's worth doing even for non porn fans.

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

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Post by hulitu »

oskarkk wrote: post #91
echelon wrote: post #83

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Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself. > Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU. https://pcengines.ch/order.htm > EU - a single market ? > Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling s…

And in the end, 90% of people will throw it in the trash with everything else. I'm actually in the other 10%, but I live in the middle of a big city where I have electronic waste container like 300m away. Btw, that's an awful website. I like simple minimalistic websites, but some people confuse "simple" with "give literally 0 fucks about the reader" and then I have 50-word long lines to read on my 32" monitor. Just p…

> And in the end, 90% of people will throw it in the trash with everything else.

And if they don't, the "recycling" company will do it.

Reuse is dead.

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Post by lachiflippi »

Quothling wrote: post #140
reddalo wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In other words, we're entering a dark age for the internet.

Maybe, maybe not. It'll be signficiantly harder for the EU to target decentralised services with no organisation behind them. It'll be far easier for them to put every major tech site which accepts VPN traffic into the box of organisations they can still fine. I'm not entirely sure the wider population will really care all that much once the dust settles. The internet works in China, and people are happy with it, and…

> I think we'll sadly see most major tech sites adopt whatever age verification tool the EU builds.

No, we won't. Tech doesn't care about users. We saw this when Valve delisted thousands of games in Germany instead of implementing the (completely anonymous) age verification process we've had built into our ID cards for years.

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

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Post by mattrad »

bspammer wrote: post #137
super256 wrote: post #135

> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Also, Imgur blocks many VPN IPs. I use Mullvad and I have not yet found a single Mullvad IP that can access Imgur.

I’m also on Mullvad, keep trying. It took me like 20 servers but I did find one.

Would you mind sharing which server please?

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

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Post by chrisjj »

qwertox wrote: post #39

> First, I just upgraded to 2.5 Gbps internet and I don’t want to route all my traffic through a VPN and take the speed hit. I have this bandwidth for a reason You don't have to. You create a container which runs openvpn to connect to your vpn provider, and also hosts an ssh daemon. The ssh daemon receives incoming SOCKS5 connections from a firefox portable browser, which has been configured to use the proxy (your Do…

> So you have that one browser just to surf imgur.

Doesn't solve the real problem, being fails of imgur embedded it many others you surf.

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Post by immibis »

mx7zysuj4xew wrote: post #67
immibis wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes. You can publish whatever geolocation data file you want, but others aren't required to respect that file. It's known that geolocation providers run pings and traceroutes from different locations as well as looking at BGP data.

I guess maybe we should start some kind of initiative to detect these geolocation providers so we can blacklist them. Maybe it can be some kind of database that is used to null-route all traffic coming from their network /s

Would be an interesting idea in 2004, but now they have access to all the same evasion techniques as everyone else.

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Post by card_zero »

philjohn wrote: post #139
card_zero wrote: post #114

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That makes no difference. "Data protection" or not, it was pressure for age verification.

Can you please provide a source for your claim?

No, it doesn't need a source. It's not mysterious. To meet the demand, age verification would be necessary. What's your claim?

I guess you could be saying that the regulators were carrying out legal duties like blind automatons, without giving a thought to the way their requirements would have to be met.

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Post by exasperaited »

misstuned wrote: post #143
exasperaited wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

It seems to differ by provider. When I was with Three it was an irritating process of having to either call up or visit a shop in person and say "I want to look at the naughty pages, please". Another provider (I can't remember which) had a method where you had to supply a credit card number. I'm with "1p Mobile" now who are a virtual network on EE, and their adult content block is just a toggle in your online account…

> I presume the idea is that you don't give little Timmy the password to his own account portal, but I don't know what's to stop him getting his own SIM by himself.

Well — perhaps the toggle is only available if the account has been topped up with a credit card?

One thing that distinguishes you getting a SIM and Little Timmy getting a SIM is that you're over the age of majority and can enter into credit contracts, whereas Little Timmy can only get a debit card.

This fact is actually central to one of Ofcom's recommended age verification techniques, though the adult block on mobile phone networks is much older than these recent measures.

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