Imgur site blocked so background doesn't load anymore

eliotcole

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It *ONLY* just started happening to me today ... which tells me that my smart DNS has been doing its very best up until this point. 🤔

I've whipped up the following User Style for those in non-FF browsers ...
uKvAc - Imgur Fixur (Transparent Background)
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uKvAc - Imgur Fixur (Transparent Background)

Removes the error, replacing with nothing and making the background colour transparent.
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... but if you're in FF you can just paste the following into your UserContent.css file. :)
CSS: 
@-moz-document domain(ukvac.com) {
  .nodeImgPreview {
    background-color: transparent !important;
    background-image: none !important;
  }
}

Should endup looking like this:
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You can also use my 'transparent avatar' thing to ensure that your transparent avatar works (at least for you), too ...

uKvAc - Avatar - Transparent Background

This removes the xenforo php enacted style which colours the background of the avatar image to the same as the block-container class for a given theme
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Imgur blocking access from the UK is down to the new Age Verification rules, easier for them to block access than setup age verification just for a single country.

The issue with the missing background pic is surely something the site admins should be fixing by hosting the image elsewhere?
 
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I've had this for some time. i wondered what it was. Got to love the UK gov and their dumb ideas.

I just live with it as im very much a "dark mode" kinda guy especially when it comes to text.
 
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Well as per my unintentially cheeky post in site announcements 'me too'. UK blocks itself in a flawed and stupid manner from the rest of the English speaking world (and more) shocker. The so called internet should really be rebranded nimbynet: Tim Berners-Lee saw this shambolic mess coming some years back!

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Happens on default skin, too.
eliotcole said:
I use the default skin, @Hurray Banana , and it started happening to me ...
... so (as you can see in @karlcdoe's link, above, and specifically, here) ... I just patched it out myself ... still ... it's happened in the default skin.
Click to expand...
( sorry to admins that we're bringing this up ... )


Reminder to others that you can either use:
  • User Styles - You can either modify your userContent.CSS or use a browser extension/add-on:
    • userContent.CSS (Mozilla Based Browsers Only)- I personally prefer this as it's less things slowing up my browser:
      • Understand - Lookup 'userContent.css' online to get some basic knowledge ( optional 😏 )
      • Locate - Find your userContent.css file
      • Modify- Either:
        • Add To userContent.css - Add a section to userContent.css with the code in the spoiler, below
        • Import Local CSS File - If you have (or intend to have) a lot of restyling then put an 'import' line at the top of userContent.css ... something like @import url("PATH_FROM_YOUR_USERCONTENT_FILE/ukvac.css");
    • Extension / Add-on - Lookup 'Stylish' in your browser's extension/add-on store and get used to that (I don't use them, so cannot help)
  • User Scripts - Install a 'User Script' extension/add-on, I prefer Violent Monkey (links to browser app stores are here) and add the script linked above.
CSS: 
@-moz-document domain(ukvac.com) {
  .nodeImgPreview {
    background-color: transparent !important;
    background-image: none !important;
  }
}
 
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