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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
Not really a shit post.
Sucks for the UK.
Works fine with a VPN for me.
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.
I just don't see why we should boycott imgur because of something the UK government did to them.
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.
Why does a jpg server need age verification?
Good. They shouldn't. Online age verification is an authoritarian scam.
What they are being fined for (potentially) is not asking for users' age during account creation. Not whatever you think (in spite of op being clear)
Good for them.
Why is that good?
Flip that around: why is it bad?
Do you actually care? Because I don't especially feel like following up a question apparently in defence of some belligerent oaf who doesn't bother reading. But you're not the same person so maybe you're just picking me up and aren't so interested in their line.
I don’t understand why a meme posting website should be required to check your ID, and I’m trying to understand why someone thinks it’s a good idea to require such insanity.
It's not about checking id, it's about asking for a users age at all.
And, if there were an unobtrusive, safe way to prevent kids seeing hardcore porn (something which research suggests is probably not good) then it should apply to places uniformly. Calling it a meme website is kinda skirting the issue of whether it has that content. It doesn't really, but it used to, and it was a meme website the whole while.
You’re operating under the assumption that putting an “are you old enough?” checkbox on a website would ever change the behavior of a child. That’s completely unrealistic and disconnected from reality. Perhaps if children need to have a controlled exposure to the internet, it is the parents’ responsibility to foster a safe environment and monitor the child. You know, since that actually does something.
I'm not?
But since part of this controversy is children's accidental exposure to porn, collecting that information would be useful for that purpose wouldn't it.
I don’t think I follow. How does collecting that information help reduce kids accessing porn? I just don’t see the link.
Because if someone ticks that box on a site that has such content, it can not be shown to them.
But in this case, I believe the purpose of collecting that data is to ensure that data processing that is legal under the GDPR for adults but not legal for minors is not done to minors' data.
The vast, vast majority of users of an image embedding site do not have a user account and don’t even visit the site itself.
That's true but besides the point. The possibility of hotlinking doesn't obviate this kind of separation of user accounts.
You can embed pornhub videos too, does that mean that, on pornhub they shouldn't have a basic "are you 18” age gate?
They don't have to deal with the taste of British dick in their mouth.
You don't seem worth talking to.
Yet, you felt the need to. How come?
You've failed to understand the problem entirely... the entire internet asks users to confirm they are above a certain age when creating accounts... and that happened because the USA demanded it. There's nothing authoritarian about it... it's a simple 'Are you over 13yrs of age' and you tick yes... that was it.
No, the entire internet absolutely does not ask that. Perhaps you meant the commercial for-profit internet?
Funny how it doesn't seem to be a problem in any other country.