[homebrewer]

It blocks many more countries than just the UK because it's the lowest effort way of fighting "AI" scrapers.

imgur was created as a sort of protest against how terrible most image hosting platforms were back then, went down the drain several years later, and it's now just like they were.

[supern0va]

It turns out that running free common internet infrastructure at scale is both hard and expensive, unfortunately. What we really need is a non-profit to run something like imgur.