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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 abcd_f »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #124
omnicognate wrote: post #25

> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy. This is what routers are for. My router (a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux) is the only thing on my network that knows there's a VPN. I can selectively route whatever I want through it…

This is it. For years, I had a stable IPSec connection from Germany to the US, where packets would be routed selectively for the convenience of web browsing without geo-blocks. It was a bit excessive for what it did, but the technical challenge of trying it was worth it. [1] [1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2021-11-19_pfsense_opnsense_ipsec_c...

IPsec to be precise, not IPSec.

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

slig wrote: post #43
omnicognate wrote: post #25

> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy. This is what routers are for. My router (a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux) is the only thing on my network that knows there's a VPN. I can selectively route whatever I want through it…

> a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux Do you remember the name of the product?

Also not the OP, but I use a NanoPi M5 for my home router. I've got OpenWRT (technically FriendlyWRT, but it's the same) running on it with Docker for running NgINX and PiHole.

https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

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Post by perching_aix »

> Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful.

This is true, and I learned to hate every bit of this fact. It taught me to despise hotlinking with passion.

All of those links are now down the train, and you have to pray that someone not only backed up the specific image you're looking for, but that they did so in a discoverable way.

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

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Post by tymscar »

perching_aix wrote: post #173

> Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful. This is true, and I learned to hate every bit of this fact. It taught me to despise hotlinking with passion. All of those links are now down the train, and you have to pray that someone not only backed up the specific image you're looking for, but that they did so in a discoverable way.

I guess at the end of the day it was a tradeoff we had to take for the lack of a better alternative back then

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Post by perching_aix »

tymscar wrote: post #174
perching_aix wrote: post #173

> Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful. This is true, and I learned to hate every bit of this fact. It taught me to despise hotlinking with passion. All of those links are now down the train, and you have to pray that someone not only backed up the specific image you're looking for, but that they did so in a discoverable way.

I guess at the end of the day it was a tradeoff we had to take for the lack of a better alternative back then

That is true. I think (I don't use Reddit anymore) even today, not all subs allow for attaching images to comments. I don't remember if posts ever had this same limitation, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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Post by whatshisface »

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”??

I was also a major fan of the em-dash, but my HN comments were too honest, harmless and helpful and now all major LLMs are RLed to sound like I do when I am supposed to be working.

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Post by iLoveOncall »

This took me a good 4 hours uninterupted to setup as I had not a single item in the stack setup yet (PiHole, Traefik, etc.) but do have Docker running on my NAS, but the end result is satisfying.

To anyone that wants to follow this article, it's more general guidance than an actual tutorial, there's a lot of holes to figure out.

It also doesn't work when directly accessing imgur, even if you add rules for the domain and the other subdomains they use, which is annoying.

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

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Post by tymscar »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #177

This took me a good 4 hours uninterupted to setup as I had not a single item in the stack setup yet (PiHole, Traefik, etc.) but do have Docker running on my NAS, but the end result is satisfying. To anyone that wants to follow this article, it's more general guidance than an actual tutorial, there's a lot of holes to figure out. It also doesn't work when directly accessing imgur, even if you add rules for the domain…

Hey. I’m glad you got it working. I didn’t intend it to be a step-by-step tutorial, more like a “hey, this is how I solved it”, with some details like the configs in case you want to follow along. And yes, the website itself still does not work, no matter what URLs you try to fix; it’s just the images, which, for me, are good enough.

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Post by philjohn »

card_zero wrote: post #149
philjohn wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My claim is the documentation about the ICO investigation and the resulting fine.

It's an entirely different piece of regulation to the "horror" of the OSA.

It's not hard - you're not allowed to target adverts for children - if Imgur aren't able to agree to that, they are within their rights to decide they don't want to properly safeguard the private information of children and withdraw from the market. That many other providers haven't thrown their toys out of the pram and complied with the law would show they decided if they can't tailor ads to children they wouldn't be able to turn a profit in the UK.

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