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For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
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Any good blocklist will include rules that filter out the complete cancer that is imgur. I can't see your memes. Use something else, or just upload them to your instance.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't get how people are still generating links to the actual image file listed on imgur. That shithole seems to have learned how to always direct you to their full dumpster website instead of just the image

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah maybe a year ago they changed the direct linking to bringing you to a landing page. The new owners are determined to drive it into the ground.
    A bunch of people started this project https://imgcat.io/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hmmm sounds suspect tbh. They make a lot of privacy-focused corpo default-template statements like "we won't partner with anyone who will [sell your data]". Yet they're using Cloudflare and their participation links are also 1.- a Google form and 2.- a Discord server (aka a "nu-community").

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It is probably just because it became an idea thing last month I think; After ingur fired mods, and started taking down posts about trump etc.

    There's nothing built up yet, thus the google forms is my thought.

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    • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Is it really because "Imgur is cancer," or are you just a UK person butthurt that you got geoblocked because Imgur refused to comply with your government's censorship/attack on privacy?

    If it's the latter, go bitch at your MP, not us.

    (If it really is the former, understandable and have a nice day.)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    It'd be kind of weird if anyone on SDF doesn't know how to run a VPN client, anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Imgur blocks VPNs, or at least it tries to. The images won’t load when connected to my work VPN. Seems to work fine from Mullvad though so I guess they’re not doing that great on their blocking.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can use it over Tor. Or at least, can use it without noticeably more circuit changes than usual.

    Are you sure your work doesn't just block it?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.

    For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    BRB, gonna screenshot this thread and put it on imgur and update this post with the link.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is imgbb still okay?

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you're really interested in seeing imgur content without the tracking, you could use one of the imgur frontends.

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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nah, get yourself a VPN.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'd be curious to hear how these dots are connected for you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I assumed you can't see the pictures because you're in the UK.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Nah, I've blocklisted them at the router level because of the nauseating amount of ads and trackers they employ.

    The body of my post is suggesting this should be common practice for these reasons, and people should use something else

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you use mobile you can also install TrackerControl from F-Droid (not the playstore version, playstore version is tracker viewing only)

    It creates an internal VPN so it can block blacklisted ad and tracker sites. It made browsing Imgur bearable.

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