# Anyone else getting "Content Not Viewable In Your Region" from imgur.com?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293
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**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293 "2025-12-01T15:28:04Z")
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/1 "2025-12-01T15:28:04Z")
Nothing against **Darren\_Garrison** yet his post here
> [@Welcome to Derry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-derry/1025105/4):
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> That, and the last ten minutes of episode one. Episode four had a pretty good scene. [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/pbNlSNC.gif)
shows a big box with “Content not viewable in your region.”
My “region” is the UK: England. Is it just KCIII that has banned imgur content? Or has imgur banned KCIII?
It’s quite common that I see this div, and often I circumvent it.
I’m unsure of the rule boundaries of the SD - based in the USA. I have certain software that would easily allow me into any country (except Russia and China). There’s usually no good reason for it - it’s just like imgur said “only USA”.
In retaliation, I will not be showing any of you the wonderful windmills in Scotland, right near Trump’s cruddy golf courses!
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/2 "2025-12-01T16:52:45Z")
Imgur is indeed inaccessible from the UK.
There was previously some brief discussion in a thread about image hosting. Starting here:
> [@SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1700):
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> Imgur has closed the UK out.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/3 "2025-12-01T17:33:31Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#):
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> My “region” is the UK: England. Is it just KCIII that has banned imgur content? Or has imgur banned KCIII?
I guess you missed the sticky at the top of this forum.
> [@ImgBB on an iPhone, steps to display images for the SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgbb-on-an-iphone-steps-to-display-images-for-the-sdmb/1024594):
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> In @Mean_Mr.Mustard’s monthly photography threads (here for Nov 2025 ➜ [\*\*Monthly Photo Competition #36– November, 2025 – “A Whole Lot of \_\_\_\_\_”\*\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-36-november-2025-a-whole-lot-of/1024478) ■ ) we recently discovered that images hosted on imgur are not viewable by Dopers in the UK, due to reasons. In the related thread for Rolling Discussions we determined that ImgBB works (here ➜ [SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread - #1723 by Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1723) bullitt ■ ) and we defined steps for a PC. See the Nov 2025 thread link a…
Just an FYI, I can’t get ImgBB to work. When I try to upload an image it hangs. So I apologize to my UK friends but I’m not going to use it.
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/4 "2025-12-01T17:45:48Z")
Yes, I missed the sticky as I didn’t think it was “sticky worthy”. That would be like all trump and hegseth “content” was unavailable. We’re almost there.
And the latest news is my Mom’s house is going to closing and somehow I don’t need to travel to the USA. Not unhappy.
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### Author:  [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/5 "2025-12-01T18:25:56Z")
I’ve been seeing that recently from here in the UK myself.
So far I haven’t worried about it too much.
I’m actually more annoyed by people who post paywalled links
But this is only a discussion board after all, I don’t think we’re going to miss anything really important…
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/6 "2025-12-01T18:38:07Z")
Following advice from one of the aforementioned threads, I installed
the free version of Proton VPN. This allows me to appear to be located
in another country and thereby view the images from imgur. It’s easy to
switch on and off if it affects anything else.
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/7 "2025-12-01T19:33:06Z")
That you can use Proton (I think Opera or other browsers have some kind of VPN) makes no sense. It’s not like people are posting Xi as “winnie the pooh” or Kristi Noem shooting dogs.
I use Nord as it allows me to “sail the high seas” yet not from every computer (though I could) and it’s just a trivial annoyance.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/8 "2025-12-04T15:38:49Z")
Well, that’s annoying. I’ve been using imgur to post pictures to the ‘nature I saw today’ thread for ages, including yesterday. I guess I’ll have to experiment with ImgBB and see if it will work for me, but I don’t have any interest in a paid account or really even registering - just one more password to wrangle for a service I have no use for (well, outside of the SDMB I guess).
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/9 "2025-12-04T15:45:18Z")
ImgBB doesn’t cost anything, and you don’t need to register an account. It also doesn’t work, either.
Here is one I tried to do today:
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/QvkNFcpG/USCG.jpg)
It just doesn’t seem to be compatible with Discourse. So, I’m sticking with Imgur unless someone comes up with a **functioning** alternative. I’d rather use one that works for some people than one that doesn’t work at all.
ETA: It eventually showed the image. I think the servers at ImgBB are probably garbage. I’ve also noticed people who post an image from ImgBB will be blank in a thread for a while then eventually appear.
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### Author:  [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/10 "2025-12-04T23:10:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> So, I’m sticking with Imgur unless someone comes up with a **functioning** alternative.
Try [Shutterfly](https://www.shutterfly.com/). It’s a retail site but the photo section is very easy to use.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/11 "2025-12-04T23:18:19Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#):
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> It’s a retail site but the photo section is very easy to use.
I guess I can try that. My wife has used Shutterfly a lot over the years so I’m very familiar with them. I’m not enthusiastic about having to sign up for an account, but I can give them my spam-collector email address.
They say you need to make a purchase every 18 months, but that’s for unlimited photo uploads, and I doubt I’ll approach any kind of limit. It’s not like I have to upload photos _that_ often. I’ll give it a shot.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/12 "2025-12-04T23:21:46Z")
If anyone is curious about why Imgur in inaccessible in the UK:
> **[Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo)**
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> The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over its use of children's data.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/13 "2025-12-04T23:27:35Z")
Testing…
[ ](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-853hJen_IE3Y8EgiSSvyXoqjB288pGW02iOVOopvW3qmLi85jewrvszZzJKntKKy5cYdfB3jRoL_VZILaXEufg?cn=THISLIFE&res=large&ts=1764890786)
That worked. It’s a bigger pain in the rear for sure than Imgur (more steps, have to add to an album, etc.) but it works. I might use this in the future as long as the rest of the world can see them.
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> If anyone is curious about why Imgur in inaccessible in the UK:
Well, Shutterfly didn’t ask for my age when I made my account any more than Imgur did, so we’ll see how long this lasts.
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### Author:  [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/14 "2025-12-04T23:33:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> They say you need to make a purchase every 18 months, but that’s for unlimited photo uploads, and I doubt I’ll approach any kind of limit.
I’m just using it for photos I post here, which is mostly the photo contest threads. I had a 10 year old account I’d forgotten about and the only email I’ve gotten from them was when I reset the password. Seems pretty harmless.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/15 "2025-12-04T23:35:00Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#):
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> I had a 10 year old account I’d forgotten about and the only email I’ve gotten from them was when I reset the password. Seems pretty harmless.
That’s good to hear, and a bit surprising, considering in the middle of the setup process, they flat-out said I was going to be receiving promotional materials from them for signing up on the account creation page. Basically, this is the deal.
And I don’t mind because I probably get thousands of spam messages to this mailbox a day. It’s my throwaway email account used on sites I don’t trust. It even has a fake name attached to it.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/16 "2025-12-04T23:41:01Z")
FWIW, I’ve been using Imgur for years without any account at all, just posting images anonymously. Since all I ever do is post the occasional single image once in a while, why bother with an account?
The UK law that drove away Imgur seems rather bizarre. Sure, children need to be protected from the dangers of the internet, but I don’t see how this achieves anything.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/17 "2025-12-04T23:43:48Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Since all I ever do is post the occasional single image once in a while, why bother with an account?
For me it was needed in order to use the app, which lets me upload directly to Imgur from my phone’s photo album. Otherwise it was impossible to post photos online from my phone. Given that most of the time I’m on the SDMB, I am on my phone, that was handy.
I’ll probably end up getting the Shutterfly app to do the same thing, luckily it has one.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/18 "2025-12-04T23:45:19Z")
> [@pjd](#):
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> Following advice from one of the aforementioned threads, I installed
> the free version of Proton VPN.
> [@Coriolanus](#):
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> I use Nord as it allows me to “sail the high seas” yet not from every computer (though I could) and it’s just a trivial annoyance.
I agree with @Coriolanus that a paid VPN is worthwhile. It can solve many issues pretty easily with blocking like the OP is experiencing.
Of course, there are free VPNs to be had but in my experience they are sluggish and a little iffy but free is free and if you want to view one pic then might be worth the little extra hassle.
VPNs are usually not very expensive though so it may be worth the monthly cost (and most have free trials so you can give them a go without costing anything).
It could be that a VPN is illegal in some countries (like Iraq or Oman) so check your local laws. Some countries only government VPNs are legal so the government can still see what you are doing (IIRC China does this).
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/19 "2026-01-06T18:20:31Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> ImgBB doesn’t cost anything, and you don’t need to register an account. It also doesn’t work, either.
> …
> It just doesn’t seem to be compatible with Discourse.
I’ve never had any problem with it, on Discourse, or anywhere else.
I saw your Coastguard image just fine.
Here’s an image I uploaded to ibb. Anyone have problems seeing it?
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/spKFKc9R/gloomy-looking-sherlock-holmes.webp)
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-content-not-viewable-in-your-region-from-imgur-com/1025293/20 "2026-01-06T18:22:30Z")
I often have that problem (UK) and can see this. If there’s some context provided, I’ll pop on the Nord VPN and “be” in the USA.
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