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iliketrains ,

imgur has more recently blocked access from numerous VPS, VPN and Tor.

vimb ,

Wait, why? What's the incentive?

Saganastic ,

Collect more user data and sell it for $$$ probably.

dismalnow ,
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That and to prevent megaleeching by scraping. It's easier and cheaper to purchase curated lists of IPs than it is to bootstrap a tool to ban them based upon bandwidth.

Brustadnrift ,

Reduce attack surface/abuse. There are plenty of services that maintains lists of “bad IPs” or “VPN IPs”. You can subscribe to them and get the list and block it. Most bots, spammers, attackers etc always run behind some type of VPN or Tor depending on what you’re doing and how much you’re trying to hide your trail.

Most services don’t go out of their way to block VPN IPs because it’s just a support headache/nightmare. Some services like Netflix are legally obligated to block well know VPN IPs

Aesthesiaphilia ,

There are plenty of services that maintains lists of “bad IPs” or “VPN IPs”.

Yeah and they're dicks for doing so.

VPNs are a very basic privacy tool, everyone should be using a VPN at all times.

steal_your_face ,
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Was wondering why Imgur wasn’t working for me

HeartyBeast ,
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Ah, that would explain why I kept getting errors viewing images on Reddit with Safari on Mac (which uses a VPN-like privacy system

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