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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
#32I was hoping, from the title ("Geo-Unblocked") that this would be about arranging an IP address block that wasn't associated with the UK, rather than just selectively running some traffic through a VPN.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#33"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 -…
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
> 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.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
> 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.
A service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#35Could this be built into open source routers? If you wanted to get fancy you could even select the best VPN for the particular service.
gl.inet routers running OpenWRT do this easily in the newer firmware versions the last few months.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#36For some reason T-Mobile in the Bay Area can get randomly geoIPed to the UK so imgur just randomly breaks on my phone. Marvelous
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#37"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 -…
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
makes me thankful for imgur deleting anonymous uploads a year or 2 ago
that made multiple forums I've been on rush to download everything to their servers
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#38Earlier 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.
A service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things
> waves hands things
government censorship
called it for what it is
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#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 Docker openvpn-container) for browsing and DNS resolution, and pipes it through the VPN tunnel.
So you have that one browser just to surf imgur. if that's your thing. And you could also use Firefox on Android (maybe also iOS) with those proxy settings (a secondary Firefox browser, like the beta version).
So you get very high control about what you are using the VPN for, you don't just pipe your entire OS's network traffic through the VPN.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
> 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.
I've said before that the age of an internet user can be estimated by how many free image hosting services they have seen come and go, like rings on a tree trunk.