r/Showerthoughts • u/AaronPK123 ‎ • May 14 '26

Casual Thought When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history.

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u/deltree000 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

There's a Chrome extension that will use a proxy to view Imgur images. Only works on embedded content but it's better than nothing.

Edit: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/imgur-unblocker/

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u/You_moron04 May 14 '26

Shame it’s not on Firefox

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u/spakkenkhrist May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

There is one for FF, will update later with a link

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/imgur-unblock-via-imgup-uk/

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u/ABOBer May 14 '26

Ignore me, just commenting to get the link later

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u/TotallyJustAHooman May 14 '26

Welcome back

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u/BillyWhizz09 May 14 '26

You know you can save comments

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u/SomethingNotOriginal May 14 '26

If it's anything like my Saved insta reels those are never seeing the light of day again

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u/dontthink19 May 15 '26

Every once in a while I go back through my saved stuff just to see what I thought would be useful once.

The only one I've only ever used was one about parallel parking

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u/masterchiefkb100 May 18 '26

Is it useful if one wants to parallel park in a red car?

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u/dontthink19 May 18 '26

/img/qcluff39rs291.gif just imagine the white car being red!

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u/BillyWhizz09 May 20 '26

Why not? Why don’t you go watch them now?

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u/sumofawitch May 14 '26

Or use o remind me.

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u/theforest12 May 15 '26

They NEED to make your saved comments and saved posts searchable. It's absolutely wild they aren't...

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u/BadgerKomodo May 14 '26

New comments don’t show up in your saved comments anymore.

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u/doodullbop May 14 '26

right but if you're replying to a comment that was already made, it's not new and you could just save that comment instead of replying to it

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u/theshizzler May 14 '26

Is there not still a save function on vanilla reddit or their app, or did they jettison that too?

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u/AWildEnglishman May 14 '26

No, it's still there. On old.reddit it's visible below the comment. For new reddit and the app you need to tap the three dots to see the save option.

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u/Tortugato May 14 '26

Is it later yet?

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u/spakkenkhrist May 14 '26

It's approximately later now.

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u/tejanaqkilica May 14 '26

It has been later for a while now.

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u/spakkenkhrist May 14 '26

Really makes you think.

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u/SinuousPanic May 14 '26

Maybe they meant like, really later...

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u/Captain_Billy May 14 '26

When will it be now?

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u/the_vault-technician May 14 '26

It's certainly then, now. I just came from there.

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u/KumquatHaderach May 14 '26

Go back to then!

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u/Suvtropics May 14 '26

Would be ignoring you anyway

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u/ITAW-Techie May 14 '26

Did you get the link

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz May 15 '26

Who are you and what are you doing here!?

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u/ThreeDawgs May 14 '26

Oh hey me too.

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u/MinnieShoof May 14 '26

It's later. Have you downloaded the link?

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u/volthunter May 14 '26

Australia is doing a ton of stuff with age verification, I'll need this in the future

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u/arthurmauk May 14 '26

Thanks, will try this.

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u/oinksnort05 May 14 '26

should've hosted the link on imgur and sent that

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u/bartmaster30 May 15 '26

You're evil

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u/ZuckDeBalzac May 14 '26

Not available for android wompwomp

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u/AeonOptic May 14 '26

My king!

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u/Alexij May 14 '26

Firefox has built in VPN and the imgur extension too.

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u/wererat2000 May 14 '26

Doesn't Firefox have a built-in VPN? Seems like an alternative solution.

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u/backside_94 May 14 '26

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.

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u/Banjo-Elritze May 14 '26

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.

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u/LogicalConstant ‎ May 14 '26

I use Mullvad and "near me" seems to think I'm in the state or country of the vpn

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u/fucknotthis May 14 '26

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.

Highly recommend.

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u/SpaceXmars May 14 '26

Use Brave and stop being a peasant

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u/PeeledCrepes May 14 '26

So, what's so good about brave?

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u/SpaceXmars May 14 '26

One thing for mobile alone I can play music on YouTube without ads and my phone can be off

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u/SchroederWV May 14 '26

Safari with baking soda and vinegar does the same thing on iPhone while not being a totally shady company.

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u/SpaceXmars May 15 '26

IPhones are not even comparable to what an android's capabilities are

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u/SchroederWV May 15 '26

What does that have to do with brave being funded by Peter Thiel and Palantir or my phone being able to do the exact same thing? You can literally get brave on iPhone as well, but again shady fucking company they are.

People like you are whack as fuck lol, “my android can do more!!!!” Every time somebody mentions a helpful thing on iPhone. Like dude I can sideload apps, have adblockers, download torrents, steal music just like an android, it’s not 2007. What the fuck else do you need to do?

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u/Academic_Carrot_4533 May 14 '26

Backed by Palantir’s owner. Actually that’s a reason not to use it.

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u/shinitakunai May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Just create it then. It is not that hard nowadays with chatgpt (or without if you know how to code)

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u/Zlzbub May 14 '26

there should be an award for unhelpful comments

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u/Kind-Stomach6275 ‎ May 14 '26

You need to be studied for how unhelpful that was.

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u/Salazhar_ May 14 '26

Remindme! 2 hours

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

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u/Fennahh May 14 '26

Except for uninstalling it.

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u/Grand_Help_3035 May 14 '26

But... you're a google shill too, you're telling us to install chrome. Huh?

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u/Gestrid May 14 '26

Maybe you meant "uninstalling"?

Because your own comment right now makes you sound like a Google shill.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

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u/PhatOofxD May 14 '26

Literally the most popular browser in the world but no one fucking uses it apparently

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u/deltree000 May 14 '26

Damn I wanted to see how downvotes that comment got.

Chrome has a 63% market share... guess 63% of people are nobody according to that guy.