The above image is all us folk in the UK see when you do, and if we try to use a VPN + incognito, we get this:

403 means forbidden, so the message is disingenuous.

They must have put some effort into block lists for VPN servers. Even if it works for some of us, it’s not worth it.

For more information on this, see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

  • Armand1@lemmy.worldOP
    8·
    12 hours ago

    For Lemmy I think you can just upload directly, which is what I do. More generally I’m not sure.

    There are a million services like this but I doubt many are FOSS as there are significant coats involved in large-scale image hosting.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Loading directly on lemmy sucks for me. When someone does that in a comment, I’m stuck with whatever resolution the thing is, can’t make it big enough to see or read.

      I don’t want to use the feature because I have to download then upload the pic I want. Not seeing a way around that.

      • Armand1@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I think a significant coat would have to be either a trenchcoat or one with a huge fur collar.