isn't it pretty easy to get the IP addresses of most VPS providers so they get blocked to prevent this?
If all you need to do is get your images back quickly, download an o/s with TOR built-in (e.g. Tails), shove it on a USB stick and access Imgur via that, might be quicker than requesting your data from the helldesk.
If you want to block users from a certain location, yes. (Kinda - there are more VPS providers than VPN providers out there, and you could block VPN endpoints too.) If you're being forced to block a region... then why would you? Imgur doesn't want to lose traffic from the UK, it's just trying to dodge paying the ICO a hefty fine for spying on kids.
Balls to the helldesk, I’ll use a VPN. I paid for Proton VPN the very day the OSA came into force. Yes. But that would also block “legitimate” uses of those VPS providers, like hosting websites & services.
Not all types of VPN are SSLVPN but SSLVPN runs over 443 and isn’t distinguished from HTTPS since its encrypted. So they would literally have to blacklist whole datacentres and that won’t wash.
We're over complicating this. Instead what they'll do is require all VPN, VPS, cloud etc providers to only allow you to purchase these services with your digital ID tied to the account.
I clicked onto imgur this morning and there was a GDPR style download your data link on the help page.
Blocking UK was the push that got me paying for two years of Proton VPN, running that on eight devices for not just that one meme and cat photo site Also Vivaldi has Proton baked into it
I've been looking for a self-hosted thing for a while, but most of the imgur replacements have been kind of arse, usually because of the supported formats. Closest I've come to an imgur experience is Photostructure, but even that grinds my gears for various reasons.
Just a though, embedded media linking will be a nightmare for media verification! Who's responsible? Its almost like the OSA wasn't thought through (I know the imgur stuff also has UK legal stuff too)
I’ve seen other recommendations for imgbb. Also, I’ve been using Vivaldi for a few years now and, it’s built in mail client. It’s based on Opera and has much of the configurability that Opera used to have. I very rarely have to use a backup browser.
It's based on Chromium, but it effectively *is* Opera - it's led by the original founder of Opera who sold it and regretted doing so.
Maybe this will help when considering browsers Nearly everything is ****ing Chrome (Blink) Gecko Firefox, LibreWolf, Floorp, Waterfox, Pale Moon, Basilisk, Tor Browser, GNOME Web (Epiphany), Falkon, SeaMonkey, Netscape Navigator 9 (EOL 2008) Goanna Pale Moon, Basilisk Blink Google Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge (new versions), Opera (new versions), Brave, Vivaldi, Epic Privacy Browser, SRWare Iron, Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium, Slimjet, Torch, QuteBrowser WebKit Safari, GNOME Web (Epiphany), Midori, Falkon, Luakit, Dillo, Qutebrowser (optional) Presto Opera (versions before 15), Opera Mini
Jesus! Never even heard of most of those! What's the best privacy-focused/secure? I tend to use a mix of Edge (until I can be ar$ed to move my stuff off it) and Brave.
In my opinion, LibreWolf. They have a pretty extensive article on their website about why they made the choices they made when creating it, and what changing any of the options means for both usability of websites and to your security level. Some changes you may be okay with, some not so much. If however you more want a straight up de-Mozilla’ing of Firefox, with a balance of privacy tweaks, then Waterfox. Reason for the split opinion from me? LibreWolf goes a bit harder on the privacy which may need to be relaxed slightly for the things you actually trust, Waterfox still puts you in a sensible posture but is a bit less strict. If you prefer the chromium universe, then ungoogled-chromium.
Cheers bud - will check these out. Curious, since a recent crash and a lack of support from devs meant my extensions that are supposed to back up my browser sessions did exactly the opposite of that.
Vivaldi's been my main browser for no idea how long. Call it a very long time, a lot to tweak, fast (except on certain sites such as fleabay), does the thing Firefox acts as my brainrot browser (read: background noise from Prime, Twitch, youtube etc etc) Also this:
Nice one - will add this to the pile as well, in that case. Getting fed up with all these crashes since I pretty much use my browser as a "to-do" list.
