Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now

remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just don’t see why we should boycott imgur because of something the UK government did.

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    • Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re not being asked to, the UK govt hasn’t done anything to them… they did this to themselves by failing to do anything about age verification long before the online safety act came in recently. This is about their failings over the prior years to do basic age checks that have been common on the internet for decades now… going dark in the UK doesn’t affect the ongoing investigations or the fines that will be imposed… they’re basically throwing their toys out of the pram and shouting LALALALALALALALA we can’t hear you anymore.

      Imgur had gone to dogshit anyway, it’s no real loss and the new owners keep making it worse and after the last round of protests from users, went on a mass banning and censorship campaign to further alienate and anger the users they desperately need to shove an ever increasing amount of ads too.

      Blame the right people… the greedy, ignorant techbros who want to extract every ounce of ad revenue they can to line their own pockets at the expense of killing the product they bought.

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        they did this to themselves by failing to do anything about age verification long before the online safety act came in recently

        Good. They shouldn’t. Age verification online is an authoritarian scam.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why does a jpg server need age verification?

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    • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not calling us to not use it as a boycott measure. It’s more of a practical consideration for other users like myself who won’t get to see your posts at all.

      There are alternative approaches that don’t cause these problems so I’d like people to use them.

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