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The above image is all us folk in the UK see when you do, and if we try to use a VPN + incognito, we get this:

403 means forbidden, so the message is disingenuous.

They must have put some effort into block lists for VPN servers. Even if it works for some of us, it's not worth it.

For more information on this, see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

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[–] remon@ani.social 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not really a shit post.

Sucks for the UK.

Works fine with a VPN for me.

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I put it on here because it's one of the communities that posts the most photos and I've seen a few Imgur embeds posted here in the last day or two. Feel free to forward to any other channel.

As for it working for you, yeah I suspect they have some IP ban lists, and it definitely won't cover every VPN, but I don't think it's reasonable to ask someone to use a different VPN to see your post. Not that you were necessarily implying that.

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[–] Zomg@piefed.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I've had this issue when using Mullvad. Definitely a VPN specific issue.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My VPN is custom and they block me. How can they tell the traffic is being routed via VPN? I should know this, can't quite remember how that works.

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Because up address spaces of known hosting providers and VPN providers is known.

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[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

As a brazilian, I've been having all sorts of issues with media being geolocked on Lemmy. I feel like the platform is becoming increasingly hostile to me.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Probably not directly, but we don't know because Imgur has unprofessionally decided to return an incorrect raw JSON error message instead of explaining the block.

There is a message from the ICO noting the block and that it was considering fining them for failing to take user reported age as part of account creation. This is different from the OSA age verification

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

See the attached article, but yeah pretty much.

[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been wondering about this for a while, what do people recommend for FOSS imgur alternatives (or just simple image hosting)? 🤔

(Of course the UK should just allow free access to information, but I would still prefer to be able to use something FOSS anyway)

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

For Lemmy I think you can just upload directly, which is what I do. More generally I'm not sure.

There are a million services like this but I doubt many are FOSS as there are significant coats involved in large-scale image hosting.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Loading directly on lemmy sucks for me. When someone does that in a comment, I'm stuck with whatever resolution the thing is, can't make it big enough to see or read.

I don't want to use the feature because I have to download then upload the pic I want. Not seeing a way around that.

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I also see this and I’m not in the UK.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

American here. I have my own OpenVPN server, not commercial, and I get this error on Firefox but was not seeing it in Edge until I closed the browser and reopened. It's how I know I forgot and left the VPN running.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I noticed with some basic testing with VPNs that a PC running Linux and a VPN is fairly obscured with no DNS or IP leaks. But when doing the same with an android phone, even with a good VPN, the browser still passes unique identifiers of the phone.

So I'm thinking the ones who say they can still use imgur are probably accessing it via a PC and not a phone.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Connected to my VPN in Amsterdam, I get this message on Firefox but not Edge. And I could swear Edge was erroring not long ago. Don't know long that's been going on, I noticed a few months back.

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