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Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
- int0x29 11mo agoFor some reason T-Mobile in the Bay Area can get randomly geoIPed to the UK so imgur just randomly breaks on my phone. Marvelous
- toomuchtodo 11mo agoGreat work! Perhaps not the appropriate OSI layer, but would be cool if this could pull the imgur blob from the wayback machine if unavailable on imgur proper. You'd still need this networking setup, as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN.
- 1317 11mo ago> archive.org is blocked as well in the UK it isn't
- toomuchtodo 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430848 is the thread where I learned of this. I'll have to do more research, thanks. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-wayback-machine-blocked-vodafone-three-o2-ee-can-change-that/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-...
- jamesbelchamber 11mo agoThe op in the thread is wrong, it's not blocked. Source: am British, on phone.
- 2b3a51 11mo agoI'm in the UK and we use 'mobile broadband' for our domestic Internet connection. So a mains powered router box that connects to the local G4 (or G5) mobile data network and provides wifi and a few cat 5 sockets. We don't need to subscribe to a phone line (e.g. last mile supplied by Openreach/BT or fibre from Virgin or whoever). I pay a single flat fee monthly by credit card. It is reasonably fast and meets our modest needs. There is no hard data cap. We average 150 Gb per quarter or so. archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package. I've chosen not to unblock for no particular reason. The block sort of makes sense to me because archive.org records a lot of Web sites, some of which may have what is regarded as adult content, and it is unreasonable to expect archive.org to label individual records of sites according to the criteria the UK uses (each country probably has its own set of criteria e.g. gambling Web sites of certain kinds in the US). archive.org is easily accessible in the UK from most wifi connections in cafes, libraries and, hilariously, colleges (where people under 18 gather in large numbers), and also from domestic adsl or fibre Internet connections.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo ago> archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package That's something to do with your provider. Maybe you need a non-crappy provider. You do not need to provide any kind of declaration that you're over 18 to access archive.org in the UK.
- 2b3a51 11mo agoSee comment from another UK resident further down. I suspect it depends on the contract you have, and quite possibly when the contract started.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoIt appears to be something to do with using PAYG SIMs for mobile broadband. Back when I lived ten minutes from one of the largest cities in the country I used 4G, but didn't run into this or their CGNAT crap because I tunneled out to a sane ISP. Given that you can buy a SIM that'll give you a couple of hundred GB of data for under a tenner, it seems reasonable that they'd block stuff you didn't want young children getting access to (easily).
- exasperaited 11mo ago> as archive.org is blocked as well in the UK per ground truth from others on HN I am in the UK. archive.org is not blocked — not the Library or the Wayback Machine. ETA: I just checked re: the comment toomuchtodo linked to, and it actually is blocked by default on my mobile phone as adult content, because I've never bothered to disable the adult content lock on that device. I get redirected to a page operated by my mobile network where I can undo the lock by giving them info; I might do that one day, might not. For non-UK users: UK mobile phone providers all block adult content by default at the account level as a simple parental control measure, and have done for some time, largely because PAYG data is really rather cheap here. Interesting but not particularly bothersome. Apparently this decision is about eleven years old.
- misstuned 11mo agoIt seems to differ by provider. When I was with Three it was an irritating process of having to either call up or visit a shop in person and say "I want to look at the naughty pages, please". Another provider (I can't remember which) had a method where you had to supply a credit card number. I'm with "1p Mobile" now who are a virtual network on EE, and their adult content block is just a toggle in your online account, with no faffing around required - you can just hit the toggle. I presume the idea is that you don't give little Timmy the password to his own account portal, but I don't know what's to stop him getting his own SIM by himself. With Three, I found the adult content block caused other problems with SSH connections dropping, various random stuff getting blocked and so on, which all went away as soon as I had it disabled, so it's worth doing even for non porn fans.
- exasperaited 11mo ago> I presume the idea is that you don't give little Timmy the password to his own account portal, but I don't know what's to stop him getting his own SIM by himself. Well — perhaps the toggle is only available if the account has been topped up with a credit card? One thing that distinguishes you getting a SIM and Little Timmy getting a SIM is that you're over the age of majority and can enter into credit contracts, whereas Little Timmy can only get a debit card. This fact is actually central to one of Ofcom's recommended age verification techniques, though the adult block on mobile phone networks is much older than these recent measures.
- John-Tony 11mo ago[dead]
- internet2000 11mo ago> ⌘+F, "vote", Not found Seems the author forgot one step.
- petercooper 11mo agoThe law was drafted by the government of one party, enacted by the government of the other party.
- jamesbelchamber 11mo agoAnd backed by popular support.
- okuntilnow 11mo agoIt’s another good example of internet sentiment being far different to popular sentiment. Polling shows around 70% supported it, though far fewer thought it would be effective. Pretty much matches my views on it.
- airhangerf15 11mo agoThis little "solution" might be fine for .. imgur .. but it shows your nation is well into the authoritarian descent. And there's no where left in the western world to move to either ... It's not a slippery slope, it's a landslide.
- ycombigrator 11mo agoWe legally have to keep porn on the top shelf in opaque packaging too in any shop where under 18s are allowed. I mean, it's basically a police state.
- oneeyedpigeon 11mo agoPolls don't handle nuance, though. Most people would support "children not watching hardcore porn", but most wouldn't support "not allowed to access imgur anymore". The polls don't ask those kinds of question, though, they ask "do you support the OSA", to which the only reasonable answer is "yes and no".
- Acrobatic_Road 11mo agoImagine having to install a vpn to browse the internet in a first world country.
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- exe34 11mo agothat's a bit histrionic, isn't it?
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- philjohn 11mo agoImagine deciding to pull out of a country because you refuse to comply with protecting the personal data of actual children.
- hulitu 10mo ago> Imagine deciding to pull out of a country because you refuse to comply with protecting the personal data of actual children. Haha. You mean like Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft ? If EU really cared about children, those companies would not be doing business in the EU.
- drawfloat 10mo agoThe UK ICO has nothing to do with the EU.
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11mo agoThe country didnt block it. This aint comparable to China if that is what you mean.
- bennyp101 11mo ago"Is this overkill for viewing the occasional Imgur image? Probably." From the last couple of weeks of researching some stuff, it makes perfect sense - I keep stumbling across blogs and documentation that uses Imgur, and it's really quite annoying that I can't see the screenshot or image that is being referenced. It hasn't /quite/ hit the point to put something in place, but this is super helpful for the final straw - when it comes!
- jamesbelchamber 11mo agoIt's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
- jsheard 11mo ago> but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break. Tale as old as time, long-running forums are graveyards of dead Photobucket, Tinypic and Imageshack embeds. Imgur has lasted longer than most but the cycle will probably repeat eventually, especially since they were acquired by faceless corpos a few years ago.
- bennyp101 11mo agoA service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things
- NooneAtAll3 11mo ago> waves hands things government censorship called it for what it is
- jsheard 11mo agoThe Online Safety Act is clear-cut censorship but that's not why Imgur left the UK. They were facing fines for violating the UKs data protection laws, specifically a set of rules that were introduced years before the OSA was even passed. Their parent company hasn't pulled any of their other services from the UK either, which you'd expect them to do if their goal was to protest or avoid the OSA.
- Seattle3503 11mo agoCould this be built into open source routers? If you wanted to get fancy you could even select the best VPN for the particular service.
- rahimnathwani 11mo agoYou can run the shadowsocks client on some routers and pass selected traffic via your external shadowsocks server. I haven't needed to do this since I move to the US, but IIRC the rules were based on IP subnets. The approach in TFA is more sophisticated and fine-grained.
- sneak 11mo agogl.inet routers running OpenWRT do this easily in the newer firmware versions the last few months.
- nvarsj 11mo agoOpenWRT supports PBR which makes this a breeze.
- kilroy123 11mo agoNice work. I've thought about doing something similar as well! It drives me nuts this ban, everywhere I look I see these blocked images. I thought about making a chrome extension that proxies.
- jc__denton 11mo agoI feel like I'd rather solve this with a proxy PAC file. I recently started using this on airplane Wi-Fi where they'd block VPNs, but strangely not SSH. Dynamic forwarding with a good PAC to "direct" connect the onboard entertainment and flight tracking hosts/URLs works great!
- John-Tony12 11mo ago[dead]
- omnicognate 11mo ago> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy. This is what routers are for. My router (a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux) is the only thing on my network that knows there's a VPN. I can selectively route whatever I want through it, including having a separate SSID/VLAN from which everything is routed through the VPN. It's wireguard based so there's no "installing a VPN", just an interface/network configured in systemd-networkd (once, on the router). Edit: Routing by domain name could be tricky, though. I haven't had a need for that, and a proxy with local DNS override (as in the article) might needed if it came to that. I'd still do it on the router, though.
- slig 11mo ago> a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux Do you remember the name of the product?
- iam-TJ 11mo agoTwo devices I use - both running Debian, and both being open-source hardware to some degree or other: PC Engines APU2, AMD x86_64, 4-core, 4GiB, 3x Gigabit Ethernet, 3 x mini PCIe, SIM slot, USB 3, Serial, SATA ports. Mine has dual band WiFi in one mPCIe, SSD in another. Turris Mox, Marvel aarch64. This can expand via plug and go via a range of extension modules. I've got one with 25 Gigabit (3 x 8-port modules) Ethernet, 1 x SFP, 5 x USB3, Wifi, Serial.
- placatedmayhem 11mo agoJust a heads up that PC Engines is winding down. The chip they use in the APU2 is EOL, and they've decided to shut down altogether. https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm
- echelon 11mo agoWildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself. > Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU. https://pcengines.ch/order.htm https://pcengines.ch/order.htm > EU - a single market ? > Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling schemes for each of the 28+ EU member jurisdictions (and even a few of their provinces). What part of COMMON MARKET was so hard to understand for EU lawmakers ? Since there is no single registration available, and separate registration would involve mindboggling complexity, bureaucracy and costs, we do not sell to EU end users until the EU gets their act together. Please order from EU based distributors, or as a business customer. > Business customers are expected to meet their obligations by registering in the EU countries they sell in. https://pcengines.ch/recycle.htm https://pcengines.ch/recycle.htm
- sunshinekitty 11mo agoa-ha, if you happen to have a Unifi router then a simpler setup would be to do policy based routing by hostnames through a vpn client maintained in the router config
- oliwarner 11mo agoThis is quite easy with OpenWRT. Install the Wireguard packages, create a connection to your VPN of choice in a nearby country (I chose Sweden). Then I used the "vpn-policy-routing" package to route Imgur IPs (199.232.196.193 199.232.192.193) through the VPN. Works for websites that keep nagging you for age verification too. But seriously, it's been more emotional than I'd expected to get my cat memes back.
- Kaxo 11mo agoYeah, doing it with OpenWRT and PBR is definately much simpler than this approach. However by using hard-coded IP addresses you are at risk of breakage if they change in the future. Also fastly-hosted services are a bit awkard to configure IP ranges to cover whole blocks as they seem to not use normal CIDR-blocks for different customers. But you use PBR's ntfset functionality to have your dns server automatically update a set whenever an DNS entry is resolved, then set the policy rules based on the set.
- prism56 11mo agoDidn't even know it was possible. But thanks to this comment - got the same setup via my Unifi router too. Thanks!
- killingtime74 11mo agoWhy not call it split tunneling, which is what it is.
- distantsounds 11mo agobecause saying "i used a split tunnel to access geo-blocked resources" doesn't get you those sweet sweet internet points on hacker news, ofc
- Joshua-Peter 11mo ago[dead]
- JoshTriplett 11mo agoI was hoping, from the title ("Geo-Unblocked") that this would be about arranging an IP address block that wasn't associated with the UK, rather than just selectively running some traffic through a VPN.
- ToucanLoucan 11mo agoI don't think that would work though. If you changed your WAN address it wouldn't be dissimilar from changing your IP to a different schema on a machine in a given network, no? It just wouldn't work at all.
- HotGarbage 11mo agoIf you're your own ISP you can be wherever you want to be https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/ https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/
- immibis 11mo agoSometimes. You can publish whatever geolocation data file you want, but others aren't required to respect that file. It's known that geolocation providers run pings and traceroutes from different locations as well as looking at BGP data.
- mx7zysuj4xew 11mo agoI guess maybe we should start some kind of initiative to detect these geolocation providers so we can blacklist them. Maybe it can be some kind of database that is used to null-route all traffic coming from their network /s
- immibis 11mo agoWould be an interesting idea in 2004, but now they have access to all the same evasion techniques as everyone else.
- qwertox 11mo ago> First, I just upgraded to 2.5 Gbps internet and I don’t want to route all my traffic through a VPN and take the speed hit. I have this bandwidth for a reason You don't have to. You create a container which runs openvpn to connect to your vpn provider, and also hosts an ssh daemon. The ssh daemon receives incoming SOCKS5 connections from a firefox portable browser, which has been configured to use the proxy (your Docker openvpn-container) for browsing and DNS resolution, and pipes it through the VPN tunnel. So you have that one browser just to surf imgur. if that's your thing. And you could also use Firefox on Android (maybe also iOS) with those proxy settings (a secondary Firefox browser, like the beta version). So you get very high control about what you are using the VPN for, you don't just pipe your entire OS's network traffic through the VPN.
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- martijn_himself 11mo agoThis is a great idea except for me (and for the author I suspect) I regularly come across attachment of Imgur hosted images on sites (like a post on a DIY forum but not all of them) so it wouldn't solve my issue unless I were to use your browser in the container all the time (I suspect the author also doesn't just 'surf imgur' but randomly comes across images hosted on imgur linked to from other locations).
- therein 11mo agoIn that case FoxyProxy's proxy by URL pattern would be what you'd want to use.
- CWIZO 11mo agoThat doesn't seem very practical. The issue is that imgur links are everywhere and you wouldn't want to switch browsers whenever you encounter one. Not to mention it requires per device setup. Author's solution is much better than what you describe.
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- KaiserPro 11mo agoI've not managed to succesfully use a VPN to get around the geoblock. It seems that most of VPN exit nodes are also blocked (but in a different way)
- nvarsj 11mo agoI've done similar. But I just used PBR (policy based routing) on my OpenWRT router. Took about 15 minutes to set it up. You can pick which domains go through VPN. Works great.
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- netXten 11mo agoSo you are just a simple GB citizen and some external site blocked access by country affiliation?! Is there any practical reason for blocking access to that site by geotargeting?
- michaelt 11mo agoThe UK’s “online safety act” means a number of medium sized sites have decided it’s not worth doing business in the UK.
- juntoalaluna 11mo agoThis is not why imgur have left though, they didn't want to comply with Data Protection laws.
- michaelt 11mo agoThe "online safety act" introduced mandatory age verification starting in July 2025. The government announced "plans to fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children's personal data" in September 2025 [1] Are you telling me those were unrelated? How are you going to fine a website over age checks without the law that requires age checks? [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo
- ww520 11mo agoThe governments of the countries that dabbling into the "think of the children" laws should build their own "safe" internets for their citizens, walling them in, requiring them to "verify their age" before letting them out of their cages into the Internet.
- philjohn 11mo agoSeeing as the investigation was by the ICO instead of OFCOM, yes, very much so. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
- prism56 11mo agoInteresting. I have nextdns.io and VPN proxy and a unifi router. Is this possible for me?
- arjie 11mo agoAnother thing that you can do when you have the IP address range is just run a traditional split-tunnel. A simple way to do that is to run Wireguard on a cheap VPS, then have only traffic to those fixed IPs go to that tunnel. The nice thing about this is that tiny WiFi routers (e.g. hAP AX S) these days support Wireguard at pretty decent speeds. Then anyone on your network gets this, and if you want it while you roam you can just run the Wireguard VPN on your phone as well with the same rules.
- p0w3n3d 11mo agoI wonder how did you overcome https. As I understand the request that goes to rerouted Imgur proxy will have different cert.
- tshaddox 11mo agoPresumably TLS still only happens at the browser and at the Imgur origin server. Everything in between just routes the request without being able to read any of the encrypted stuff. This is no different than using your browser while your computer is connected to the web via a VPN, except that in this case only a small subset of requests go through the VPN.
- stordoff 11mo agoAIUI, nginx doesn't terminate the SSL/TLS connection - it is just passed through as is. `ssl_preread on` extracts the server name from the Server Name Indication (SNI) send as part of the TLS handshake, which is unencrypted. I just set up a similar system (Debian LXC permanently connected to a VPN, nginx proxying imgur.com and all its subdomains with the rest being dropped), and it works quite well. Setting DNS records for imgur.com and {api,i,s}.imgur.com seems to be sufficient to get the site and inline images working (not 100% if all are needed - I haven't fully tested it yet).
- sunaookami 11mo agoWhat's annoying about this block is that Imgur detects Telegram's server for image previews as coming from the UK but they are in the Netherlands so when someone sends an imgur link through Telegram with the little preview attached you now only get the "not available" image as prevew...
- dinvlad 11mo agoThis is such a deep rabbit hole! Other alternatives include CDN and residential proxies, no VPN required
- Razengan 11mo agoImgur doesn't even let me sign into my almost 10 year old account from many countries while traveling. Never seen this kind of wack shit anywhere else. The fuck's their problem?
- tom-9999 11mo agoThis can be done on UniFi using policy based routing too trivially if anyone wants to repeat this. Instructions using the unifi mobile app as it’s what I have to hand: 1) download wireguard conf file from vpn provider. On mobile app settings -> vpn client -> add new -> wireguard. Upload the file and save it 2) settings -> policy engine -> policy based routes. New. Select what to route -> specific traffic. Source = all devices. destination = domain name. Here add any domains you like. Interface = add the vpn you added in step 1
- cpressland 11mo agoThe only downside is this doesn’t work if you have IPv6 enabled as UniFi Network still allows those to bypass the VPN. I ended up making a long list of firewall rules to block specific sites IPv6 ranges, which worked until I hit cloudflare backed sites. I’m really hoping UniFi start supporting IPv6 WireGuard soon.
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- tucnak 11mo agoWow, this is unbelievable. I thought UniFi was a premier networking product. Certainly its price would suggest so. Not supporting IPv6 in 2025 is unacceptable.
- cpressland 11mo agoTo be clear, the rest of the OS supports IPv6, just the WireGuard VPN doesn’t. Disappointing all the same.
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- tymscar 11mo agoOh, I guarantee you that this has not been touched by any AI. I used to use emdashes all the time, then people thought those were AI telltale signs, so I stopped. I loved making lists. Same thing. Now I’m not allowed to say “key detail”??
- theasisa 11mo agoI'm autistic and get mistaken for AI all the time. At first I was annoyed but now I feel like it is adorable.
- zenlot 11mo ago[dead]
- bilkow 11mo agoYeah that's annoying. Maybe you could add a disclaimer on your blog saying you do not use AI to write and then just write however you like the most? I think it would help both yourself and those who want to avoid AI content.
- Theodores 11mo agoThe 'no AI used' disclaimer is a nice idea, however, how long is that going to last? We could all have disclaimers or identifiable 'stickers' such as what we had in the olden days of IE6, to send people over to Firefox/Chrome/whatever. However, next time the tech bros scrape the web, their AI beasts could learn the trick, to decorate their piffling output with similar disclaimers. In the olden days, 'the camera never lied', however, nowadays, 'the camera always lies'. Even if it is not AI, you know it has been staged and Photoshopped to within an inch of its pixels. So, what to do? One way would be to have 'guilds'. Maybe tie it into academic institutions, where teaching staff are at the sharp end of AI use and exacting penalties for AI abuse. Imagine if there was a 'guild of human writers' and being in it meant better SEO with the consequence of abusing AI meaning getting kicked out of the guild. Ultimately though, without any 'guild system', it all comes down to quality content.
- peanut-walrus 11mo agoIf your VPN provider offers a socks5 instance you can do this entire thing with a socat oneliner + the dns hijack of course.
- jonathanstrange 11mo agoThere is currently no alternative to geo-blocking the UK if you don't want to get threatening legal letters from Ofcom that order you to break the laws of your country.
- notepad0x90 11mo agothey block VPNs too, if yours is working it's just a matter of time until they get to it. Avoid using imgur entirely. What I find insidious is that unlike reddit and some other sites, they won't tell you it's blocked, they'll give you this: {"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}
- extraduder_ire 11mo agoEven if they give you this error if you load and image directly, it will often still work if hotlinked in a web page.
- tymscar 11mo agoThat’s what I get if I go to their page, but when curling the image directly it works fine
- tamimio 11mo agoIt works great till you leave your house. Unless you vpn back to your house, but then again, now you are using double vpn!
- nomilk 11mo ago> even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy. Is there a way to install a VPN such that requests to/from certain domains (e.g. imgur.com) are routed via the VPN and the rest of your traffic is via non-VPN? This would solve the problem of constantly having to dis/re connect VPN, and do it in an automatic fashion (i.e. without the manual steps of first recognising there's an unavailable asset on the page, opening VPN app, switching it on etc). Such a configuration would also be very useful in other situations, e.g: - using social media in countries that require age-verification - using apps that geoblock (e.g. spotify blocks my subscription every few days because it detects a change in country, but what it's really detecting is simply whether or not my VPN happens to be on/off) - accessing sites which are blocked (e.g. Thailand blocks common UK news sites which have said unflattering things about Thai royalty).
- blackqueeriroh 11mo agoThat’s what they did effectively
- tecleandor 11mo agoThat'd be "split tunnel/VPN" by domain name, and usually it's limited to HTTP/S requests (because the hostname comes with the petition header), but some vendors (like ZScaler) do tricks to apply it to different protocols. For example, the equivalent in Tailscale would be an "App Connector": https://tailscale.com/kb/1342/app-connectors-setup#add-a-custom-app https://tailscale.com/kb/1342/app-connectors-setup#add-a-cus...
- nomilk 11mo agoThis is all new to me, but seems odd (startup idea?) why there isn't a SaaS letting me accomplish this on iPhone in a few minutes. (a few youtube searches for 'how to split VPN' are hopelessly theoretical as opposed to practical) E.g. I'd definitely pay $10/month for an app that lets me input domains and which country to re-route traffic through. E.g. a handful of social media apps via US (my country has age verification), a handful of news sites via UK (some countries I travel to block them entirely), spotify via a single country (I don't care which one, so long as it's constant). I currently use ProtonVPN iPhone and macOS apps but AFAIK it routes all traffic through a single country which requires opening the app and manually changing it each time you want traffic routed via a different country. Extremely keen to hear any solutions people have used on their own devices.
- crimsonnoodle58 11mo agoThat's a lot of steps for something that would be a simple route rule or mangle + mark routing on mikrotik. The route rule would route out a VPN instead of the main route. If the domain name resolves to many IPs you can keep an address list up to date using a simple script.
- Sarky 11mo agoWith proper configuration Mikrotik can do preety much everything network related. Awesome product and os.
- iLoveOncall 10mo ago> That's a lot of steps for something that would be a simple route rule or mangle + mark routing on mikrotik. I'm sorry but suggesting buying and setting up hardware as an easier and more accessible alternative to a purely software-based solution that will take at most a couple of hours to install is simply ridiculous.
- crimsonnoodle58 10mo ago> is simply ridiculous Way to exaggerate to make a point much? A mikrotik router can be purchased as low as $24.95 and it will not only provide you with an enterprise grade router, it will also provide you with the functionality I mentioned above. The point of my comment was that it can be done at the router level, instead of requiring the user to run and maintain Pi-hole, Traefik, Gluetun, Nginx, and the server required to run these apps/containers.
- chatmasta 11mo agoImgur is one of the more annoying UK geoblocks because they persist it with cookies, so if you want to view something you can’t just switch to VPN for a second without also changing browser sessions. Reddit is worse… you can’t even view someone’s profile if they’ve ever submitted a post labeled NSFW.
- reddalo 11mo agoIn other words, we're entering a dark age for the internet.
- Quothling 11mo agoMaybe, maybe not. It'll be signficiantly harder for the EU to target decentralised services with no organisation behind them. It'll be far easier for them to put every major tech site which accepts VPN traffic into the box of organisations they can still fine. I'm not entirely sure the wider population will really care all that much once the dust settles. The internet works in China, and people are happy with it, and while we can agree that is probably what you'd call th dark age, you'll need significantly public opposition to do anything about it. I think we'll sadly see most major tech sites adopt whatever age verification tool the EU builds. They did with all the various form of payment system though this was obviously helped along with the API provided by companies like visa. Honestly you could probably even use the 0 cost back charge that visa has, which is used by some finance services to verify that you are who you say you are through the visa connection to your national digital identity.
- lachiflippi 11mo ago> I think we'll sadly see most major tech sites adopt whatever age verification tool the EU builds. No, we won't. Tech doesn't care about users. We saw this when Valve delisted thousands of games in Germany instead of implementing the (completely anonymous) age verification process we've had built into our ID cards for years.
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- g-b-r 11mo agoSo imgur is still alive? From Italy (no VPN) I've been getting «{"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}» for any imgur url for maybe an year
- bigiain 11mo agoPossibly a great way to circumvent stuff like Netflix/Spotify/whoever's "same household" requirements? A RasPi or cheapo Mini pc configured with this and PiHole that I can set up in my "remote family's house to funnel their Netflix/Spotify traffic through my internet connection/IP address?
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- hexbin010 11mo agoThis is the correct way to make exceptions for hostnames, not policy based routing on a router that merely translates hostnames to IPs, IPs which could be shared by 1000s of services and thus a much wider whitelist than you wanted. Nice
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- 867-5309 11mo agoin summary: wasn't using a vpn, is now using a vpn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- super256 11mo ago> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Also, Imgur blocks many VPN IPs. I use Mullvad and I have not yet found a single Mullvad IP that can access Imgur.
- 0xpsyduck 11mo agoit could be easily done by policy based routing on your machine or your router.
- metabrew 11mo agoDid this with policy based routing in my opnsense (pfsense) router a couple of weeks ago. egress via a specific tailscale exit node for a list of domains including Imgur. Also browsing Minecraft mods/shaders was my motivation ha.
- sandworm101 10mo agoNext-gen VPN: content-aware routing. Just as NAT keeps track of who is talking to what, VPNs will one day actively detect that traffic is hitting blocks and re-route that through exits not subject to blocks. Bypassing local restrictions on an ad-hoc basis will become seemless.
- perching_aix 10mo ago> Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful. This is true, and I learned to hate every bit of this fact. It taught me to despise hotlinking with passion. All of those links are now down the train, and you have to pray that someone not only backed up the specific image you're looking for, but that they did so in a discoverable way.
- tymscar 10mo agoI guess at the end of the day it was a tradeoff we had to take for the lack of a better alternative back then
- perching_aix 10mo agoThat is true. I think (I don't use Reddit anymore) even today, not all subs allow for attaching images to comments. I don't remember if posts ever had this same limitation, but it wouldn't surprise me.
- iLoveOncall 10mo agoThis took me a good 4 hours uninterupted to setup as I had not a single item in the stack setup yet (PiHole, Traefik, etc.) but do have Docker running on my NAS, but the end result is satisfying. To anyone that wants to follow this article, it's more general guidance than an actual tutorial, there's a lot of holes to figure out. It also doesn't work when directly accessing imgur, even if you add rules for the domain and the other subdomains they use, which is annoying.
- tymscar 10mo agoHey. I’m glad you got it working. I didn’t intend it to be a step-by-step tutorial, more like a “hey, this is how I solved it”, with some details like the configs in case you want to follow along. And yes, the website itself still does not work, no matter what URLs you try to fix; it’s just the images, which, for me, are good enough.
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