Imgur is now blocked in the UK

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

https://www.theverge.com/news/788823/imgur-uk-users-blocked-ico-investigation

 

Obviously this only affects us in the UK, but given FISDs defacto image hosting is Imgur, this is more than a little inconvenient.

 

It can be bypassed with a VPN, but that's not a free option so I will have to look into what I will be doing about it.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Well that's 2 years work down the drain  

[Sithping[TK]]

This imgur debacle is a pain in the... 

The Whitearmor forum is a field of broken threads to viewers in the UK. 

Sad times, I enjoyed viewing my fellow Troopers photos of their latest troop logs. 

Only hope anything official posted by the Detachment is viewable for all members? 

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

It takes me back to the bad old days of the Photobucklet apocalypse.

 

I am hoping someone folds, but I can imagine both being stubborn enough to not.

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

I'm currently trying https://freeimage.host/ which seems "pretty good actually" but will reserve judgement until I've used it a bit more.

[JBar[TK]]

Its outrageous. It’s unfair!

 

But seriously why would they do this and I wonder if it’ll be reversed 

[Sly11[Admin]]

On 10/3/2025 at 7:03 AM, gmrhodes13 said:

Well that's 2 years work down the drain  

Yeah that was a lot of mucking about rescuing what we could from Photobucket, to now have issues with Imgur.

UK now, what country will be next!!

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

2 hours ago, JBar said:

Its outrageous. It’s unfair!

 

But seriously why would they do this and I wonder if it’ll be reversed 

It’s due to some well intended and not well implemented legislation to protect children from graphic imagery and video. The government will not back down any time soon I wouldn’t expect. 
 

Affected site need to implement a proof of age system using card payment systems, which is not exactly great, and imgur basically don’t want to. So to prevent legal hassle they just block to the UK. 
 

Not sure why other image sites work, but that’s what’s going on.