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Why would they do that? (Not a rhetorical question, just curious). It would suffice to block UK IPs for compliance, if visitors use a VPN to circumvent that Img
by t0mas88 11mo ago
Why would they do that? (Not a rhetorical question, just curious). It would suffice to block UK IPs for compliance, if visitors use a VPN to circumvent that Imgur would get more traffic and more ad revenue. No reason to put extra work into blocking those users.
- lexicality 11mo agovindictiveness
- necovek 11mo agoGives them proof they did their best to "protect minors" even if they circumvented the GeoIP rule: someone trying and realising it still does not work might get X percentage to not bother further thinking there was something smarter at play and not just GeoIP (which there is).
- voxic11 11mo agoCould be for performance? Basically cache the group lookup result into a signed cookie that can be checked at the edge rather than needing to do a geoip lookup for every request.