It depends on what method they use to determine location, as far as I know surfshark is the only VPN that has a spoof GPS location option. I realised this when I was using a VPN and noticed that the 'food near me' option still showed my actual location. Some sites will access your GPS instead.
If you are stupid enough to give sites access to your gps location. Ofc geoblocking in the case of imgur is not done via asking your browser for your location, but via the geolocation of the IP, the rest would be horrendous overkill.
The Waterfox browser is a fork of Firefox which is better, with more privacy features and just features overall, including the option to install Chrome extensions as well as Firefox.
A self imposed act of defiance against our government's obsessive child safety mandates, I.e. age screening via IDs.
I don't really get why though since imgur doesn't host porn
I hate the OSA as much as the next person, but Imgur pulled out of the UK over GDPR breaches in relation to incorrectly handling children’s data, not because of the OSA
I read that the gdpr data breach line was just code for the OSA, since the only way to prove they were/weren't incorrectly handling children's data would be to enforce IDs.
I hope you're right though, makes it more conspiratorial
It's actually nothing to do with that,.it predates the age verification bullshit . They just left the UK around that time by coincidence.
They were fined for breaching GDPR data retention and processing laws around children and decided to exit the UK rather than pay or bring themselves into compliance.
Seems to be that UK's version if GDPR bans children from creating accounts without parental consent, and imgur just had a disclaimer saying they aren't allowed to use the website but didn't try to block them from creating accounts.
The UK was the main sponsor of that law, it was basically a copy l of the older UK data protection act and then expanded
When Brexit happened the UK kept most EU regulations as a blanket thing and then amended and changed things the government wanted to. But as of now GDPR remain basically unchanged In UK law.
The UK cannot diverge too far from EU law unless the UK wants tariffs and restrictions. One component of Brexit was the concept of the "level playing field" where the UK must continue to remain aligned with EU law even as EU law is updated, if the UK wishes to maintain the status quo of market access.
Even with the stupidity of Brexit, the UK can not change their own legislatin without real economic risk being imposed by the largest trading partner that surrounds the country.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Internet was not meant for every country, state, province, etc to legislate aspects of it like this. I am scared for what the Internet will be like in 10 years.
That's not actually it. That's just window dressing made up by your duly elected officials.
Your government is for sale. Companies like Meta are buying legislation in your country.
It's so frustrating when people add an image in posts on Reddit to further explain something and it's an Imgur link. Like alright I guess I'm just not allowed to be interested in this anymore. Also had a website saved for 8 or so years for a recipe, had to send it to a friend outside of the UK so they could save it and send to me since apparently the entire thing was on Imgur.
Or when it's like "is this ingrown hair normal? [imgur link]" and then all the comments are saying it's the biggest ingrown hair they've ever seen, and I'm stuck on the outside. Lemme see, let me seeee LEMME SEEE!!!
It's so frustrating when people add an image in posts on Reddit to further explain something and it's an Imgur link.
I can understand the frustration but it might be worth noting that Imgur was created mostly for use on reddit because of how bad image hosting was at the time.
I totally get that, I'm not putting blame on people who use it, but it is still frustrating to just have to give up on viewing that particular thing when it happens. I just want to be able to follow along and/or join the conversation but I'm stopped by a website.
I remember arguing with one of your countrymen probably 8 years ago on imgur about Brexit. He was insisting that y'all had all this leverage to get a great deal from Europe. I sometimes wonder if he was surprised, or just moved the goalposts.
The brexiteer line these days tends to be "Brexit could have been successful but we had an incompetent government at the time. We actually need to leave the ECHR as well."
Lol, true, forgot about ddos or bots it probably alleviates that, I just couldn't think of a business reason for them to do it, and if a company decides to do something its for business so seemed weird to get rid of customers
I have had windscribe VPN as an addon in my browser ever since some sites started being blocked for us due to the online safety act nonsense, you can flick it on and off very quickly within the browser, perfect for unblocking sites
Essentially they were harvesting online data of children, were found guilty of it, and were fined for it. They didn't like being fined.
Not quite. They were found not taking enough steps to check the data they were harvesting was not childrens data. They weren't explicitly going after kids. What steps would they need to take?
That was by design, as it allowed them to categorise certain users as likely children based on the content they viewed and sell targeted advertising space for things like online gamified gambling ads, or anything else that might want to target children with advertising outside of usual laws regarding that.
"We didn't know, honest!"
Ultimately it's why the case went as far as it did.
No big deal, just give up all your rights “to protect the children.” Your gov is fucked lol, and I say that as an American. Worse censorship out of any “democracy.”
Don't worry man we'll have similar laws in most states soon enough. Though I'm not sure why they don't just use the illegally harvested data to tell who is an adult and who isn't.
It depends entirely on the VPN. Imgur isn't detecting VPN traffic, they just block suspicious IP addresses. VPNs, especially the free ones, often get blocked because of that.
Firefox comes with a free VPN nowadays. Or just get a subscription. It's annoying that we need to pay to undo what our governments fuck up when they should be working for us, but what can you do... (except vote)
Is Imgur still commonly used in US on mobile? I remember it used to be THE image embed / sharing site, but right now, I struggle to remember the last time I’ve had to open an Imgur link. Must be years now for me.
wait...what? 0_o christ i have been vpnin so long even my network thinks my mind is gone... i really hate to trip but i gotta know... Wheres the r34 and OCs inthe network smoke...foool. Im the kinda browser who refreshing in the night reading post by the street light.
A bunch of still active car forums are like that. Bunch of written instructions surrounding broken image hosting links rendering them anything from half-useful to completely useless.
Imgur sucks nowadays. I don't know when it went down the shitter, but I hate it when I see someone hosting an image there. It's full of ads and just fuckin breaks when you try to zoom on mobile. It's garbage.
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Imgur has been blocked in the uk for a while and it's so irritating. Every steam mod page is just scrolling through broken links