Comment by Razengan

9 months ago

imgur also banned logins and uploads from Ukraine, Vietnam etc. with no reason given, just a dirty 502 return code.

https://old.reddit.com/r/imguralternatives/comments/1kr11nw/...

while flaunting "Stand with Ukraine!" and all that virtue signaling.

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hofrogs  9 months ago

There was a time (a few weeks/months, I think?) when I've been getting that "imgur is over capacity, try again later" every time I tried to open an image posted there. First few times I wondered if imgur is really down, but haven't seen anyone in related comment sections complain, eventually I figured out that they are just lying to you with a fake error message if they don't like your IP for whatever reason, and the situation made me really angry (just return a 403 and say that the address is banned, damn it! It helps nobody to give a wrong error message and googling it just shows that many people have the same problem, scrapers will not be fooled by that anyway). After a while, I stopped getting those errors.

bzzzt  9 months ago

It's complicated. Lots of sites want to geoblock Russia for good reasons, but it's not always clear if an IP address is Russian or Ukrainian. https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-russification-of-ukrainian-i...

  • Yizahi  9 months ago

    Geoblock is kids game. Try birthblock. Western megacorps are asking Ukrainians for the passport data, to prove they are from Ukraine and then block them anyway, if they were born in the currently russian occupied regions. And they don't accept any proof of living outside of those regions. This is the level of sewing a yellow star on your work robe, but no one if talking about it or shaming the corporations.

  • feelamee  9 months ago

    can you explain what is the good reason here? Im constantly meet this problem and interested why

    • bzzzt  9 months ago

      Looking at service logs at my company show a serious amount of hacking attempts by bots originating from Russian and Chinese IP addresses. Mostly harmless on an updated server not running an ancient Wordpress but attempts nonetheless.

      For companies that don't serve customers there it's very common to just block those network ranges. Of course, it's no real solution, but some people are convinced every security layer contributes to 'defense in depth'.

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user_7832  9 months ago

India too is on this list. Often I get an error claiming capacity overload, and it doesn’t work unless you switch to a vpn.