People in the United Kingdom are no longer able to reach the material hosted on a popular media sharing venue, Imgur, a UK data Watchdog warned that this original company could impose a monetary penalty on Mediab.
Visitors visiting the site are now shown a message, stating, “There is no material available in your area,” to help in the page with a link, explaining why the material was blocked.
“Since September 30, 2025, access from the United Kingdom to Imgur is no longer available,” the Imgur Help Pages.
“UK user will not be able to log in, view, or upload images. Embedded imgur content on third-party sites will not be displayed for UK users.”
Source: Bleepingcomputer
While Imgur has not issued a statement, the data watchdog of JioBlock UK comes after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Announced in march It was investigating whether Tiktok, Reddit, and Imgur were properly protecting children’s data and assessing the age of the people of the country under the Online Security Act (OSA).
The ICO said that it had completed its investigation and issued a notice of intention to impose monetary penalty on Mediab about these concerns on 10 September.
“We reached our provisional conclusions on this investigation, and we read the intention of imposing a monetary punishment on Mediab on 10 September 2025,” read. a statement From ICO.
“Our findings are provisional and ICO will carefully consider any representation from Mediab before taking a final decision whether to release monetary punishment.”
In response, Imgur decided to gearbllock to the entire country, no longer allowed people to reach any material hosted with their site or their server in the UK.
However, ICO warns that blocking users from the UK does not exempt the organization from paying the pre -imposed fine.
As one of the world’s largest media-sharing sites, this Jioblock has a widespread impact.
On the websites that allow users to embed images, such as steam workshops and discussion forums, UK people are now looking at purple rectangles, “not looking into your area”.
Currently, the only work -round is to use a VPN, which enables you to connect to IP addresses in another country.
However, this will probably affect users’ experience, while on other sites on the Internet due to slow speed and potentially other geostrictions.
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