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>>ANewbu+(OP)
Imgur only has yearly revenues of around $30m. The money they make in the UK specifically likely doesn't justify wasting resources on compliance.

>>chmod7+A3
It is an image storage service masquerading as a business. It will be of no loss if it were to fail entirely.

>>toomuc+kn1
> "It will be of no loss if it were to fail entirely."

That's decades of the public internet that would be permanently erased; billions of dead links pointing nowhere. HN alone would lose ~32,000 images from its archives,

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Is it not hubris to call it "no loss" if, say, 3 hours ago, "Design of a LISP-based microprocessor / Page 22 has a map of the processor layout:" was forever lost to humanity, as collateral damage to some techbros' dispute?

Decentralization can't arrive soon enough.

>>perihe+3q1
> Is it not hubris to call it "no loss" if, say, 3 hours ago, "Design of a LISP-based microprocessor / Page 22 has a map of the processor layout:" was forever lost to humanity, as collateral damage to some techbros' dispute?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230427181813/https://i.imgur.c... (link is already dead at Imgur)

Wayback will have them, as is tradition. A crawl (non IA) has been kicked off to reconcile to ensure maximum coverage of Imgur links on HN.

>>toomuc+Gq1
archive.org is also blocked in the UK. I cannot access it without VPN.

>>varisp+8y1
I can, it’s not blocked.

>>teamon+fM1
It is blocked by many ISPs because it contains adult content.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-...

>>varisp+ZU2
These are optional adult filters that you can unblock. I have phones on O2 and EE and am able to access archive.org. I believe that you do need to have proven to the ISP that you are over 18. Paying by credit card counts.

The government requires that ISPs provide some opt-out adult filtering, but archive.org being blocked seems like an over-zealous third party moderation list, not government censorship.