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Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by misstuned on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:16AM (#49445147)
Imgur has been totally unusable in the UK for a couple of years - it's an irritant, because it's used for so many image embeds and I'm reluctant to fire up the VPN just so I can see someone's meme that they posted on a forum thread. Nobody has ever used Imgur as a destination site, it's a utility, and any attempts to make it a destination or an app you'd deliberately open are futile.

Reddit isn't so badly impacted, but there are still age-walls around some of the content where it's been deemed "adult" (which encompasses more than just graphic adult imagery).

Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being by esskay on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:18AM (#49447008)
There's a chrome plugin called 'MirrorImage'[1] that basically rewrites all imgur links/embeds to use a proxy service, it seems to work pretty well to get around it.

I dare say something similar also exists for Firefox

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mirrorimage/mglldpk...