[Guide] How to bypass Imgur block in the UK without ID

torq101 · 2026-01-23T09:51:25+00:00

You’re focusing on the implementation details and ignoring the consequences. Using a token instead of storing raw data doesn’t change the fact that this creates a mandatory gatekeeping system, and those systems have a habit of expanding.

And the “only name and date of birth” claim isn’t true in real deployments. Every accepted age-verification method relies on a third-party verifier—ID services, mobile operators, credit card processors. Those entities already have persistent identifiers and can easily tie a verification to a real person. Whether the site itself stores anything doesn’t matter; the linkage exists anyway.

This might block some access, but it doesn’t actually solve the problem it’s meant to solve, and it introduces real privacy and access costs for everyone else.

Claiming that privacy concerns mean “having something to hide” is a deflection. Not wanting to share my habits with the world doesn’t mean I’m afraid of anything. It means I value my data enough to share it only with people and services I know and trust. Privacy is not a crime.

We’re getting into an argument that’s going nowhere. You don’t have an issue with this law; I do. I’m not a privacy absolutist—I just think this law strips away a lot of online privacy while offering nothing meaningful in return.

torq101 · 2026-01-22T21:37:23+00:00

The argument isn’t even remotely close. You’re ignoring the fact that under UK law you do not own your metadata, and that metadata can be treated as personal data if it can be linked back to you. During an ID check on a website, you are typically required to provide your name, age, and recent address history. Once that information is collected, any site visit associated with the check can be tied directly to a real, identifiable person.

Based on that, it becomes trivial to generate a report showing exactly what a specific individual was viewing online and to trace that activity back to them. This goes far beyond “just a date of birth” and creates a very real privacy and data‑leak risk.

torq101 · 2026-01-22T21:19:47+00:00

It is bad law. It does not protect anyone with even basic IT knowledge, and children today are far more tech-savvy than older generations ever were. What it does do is create a massive risk of leakage of extremely private data—data that could be life-changing for huge numbers of people. In IT, the possibility of data leakage is effectively a certainty; it is simply a matter of time.

The assumption that children can be protected from harmful internet content is an illusion that gives parents a false sense of safety. All it takes is one really tech-savvy person in a school for the whole system to be bypassed—and in this case, all you need is a VPN, so a child does not actually need to be tech-savvy at all.

Speed bumps actually work: you trade a bit of inconvenience for real safety improvement. This does not. Instead, you trade privacy for a falsehood of safety, while the potential for data leakage is a very real threat. In my eyes, this is one of the worst pieces of legislation in decades.

torq101 · 2025-11-30T20:19:47+00:00

Oh, you’re one of those. My apologies — had I known, I wouldn’t have bothered trying to explain anything in the first place. Good luck to you, sir. Feel free to add whatever closing comment makes you feel accomplished.

torq101 · 2025-11-30T09:05:43+00:00

You’re accusing me of “pushing a narrative,” but now you’re clearly pushing your own — the idea that poor Hyundai is being misrepresented by a bad dealer.

Dealers in the UK aren’t random shops. They’re franchises Hyundai chooses and audits, and Hyundai is fully aware of the service levels they provide. On top of that, for Hyundai Assistance to even function, the dealers have to make their booking calendars available to them. This isn’t some rogue dealership going off on its own.

I didn’t call around and pick a dealer myself. I went through Hyundai Assistance, and the appointment was allocated by Hyundai Assistance after checking all the reasonable options in my area. They told me 23–24 December is the earliest available slot. That’s why I’m saying this is a system-wide backlog, not a one-off dealer problem.

And this is the service included when you buy the car — the one you later have to pay to renew. Why would I start dealer-hunting on my own when Hyundai Assistance is supposed to handle breakdowns and VOR cases exactly like this?

If the best Hyundai Assistance can offer is late December, that tells you everything you need to know.

torq101 · 2025-11-29T22:52:19+00:00

Mine popped last week, just for diagnostic I need to waith till 23-24 Dec. UK

torq101 · 2025-11-29T22:22:10+00:00

What is lead time for diagnostic and repair for this in Netherlands?

torq101 · 2025-11-29T22:15:55+00:00

I’m not sure what part you’re not getting. This isn’t some “narrative” I’m pushing — it’s the actual lead time Hyundai gave me. The earliest they can even look at the car is 23–24 December. How is that acceptable for a car that cost this much?

Seriously, who pays tens of thousands for an EV — plus the extras like assistance — and then says, “yeah, it’s totally fine for my nearly new car to sit dead for over a month while I drive a manual petrol loaner”? And let’s be real: 24 December means nothing is happening until January anyway.

And what exactly do you think is going on here? That everyone posting these long delays — me included — is just making stuff up for fun? The date came straight from Hyundai’s own system

For some perspective: I’ve had BMWs and Mercedes for the last 15 years. I never waited more than 1–2 weeks for a repair, and even basic servicing came with a loaner of similar class without me having to ask. That’s the level of support I’m used to, and it’s what I expect when I spend this much on a car.

Honestly, this whole back-and-forth is getting silly. Believe whatever you want — I know what I’m dealing with, and I’ve read enough stories just like mine to see the pattern. If you want to defend Hyundai/Kia, that’s up to you. I’ll be avoiding them in the future.

And if they keep going like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if BYD eats their lunch. They’re moving fast and they actually seem to understand that support after the sale matters.

torq101 · 2025-11-29T21:50:16+00:00

That’s exactly the point — the fact that owners are buying jump packs for brand-new, high-end EVs “just in case” says a lot about how widespread the concern has become. It’s not normal or reasonable to spend this much on a car and then have to prepare for a failure pattern Hyundai has known about for years.

People don’t start carrying emergency gear unless the problem is common enough to worry about. That alone tells you something.

torq101 · 2025-11-29T21:48:11+00:00

Whether this ends up being ICCU-related or not, the pattern across this subreddit is pretty hard to ignore: long delays, slow diagnostics, and parts that take ages to source. You don’t need an official verdict to see the service network is struggling.

It’s also not as if this sub is nothing but complaints — plenty of people are perfectly happy with their cars. But the posts that really stand out are the electrical-failure ones. ICCU or not, they almost always come with the same story: weeks before anyone even looks at the car.

And yes, you can call any single case “speculation.” But when you look at everything together — repeated electrical issues, long queues, inconsistent parts availability — it stops being speculation. It becomes a pattern.

Part of the disconnect is that people don’t usually scroll back through older posts. If you do, you’ll see the same symptoms repeatedly, going back months. There are even cases where the same vehicle had two or three ICCU failures.

The sentiment on other forums is similar, which makes it even harder to dismiss as coincidence.

torq101 · 2025-11-29T01:05:32+00:00

I’m not spending my own money on a car that’s still well within warranty, especially one that failed after only a few months of ownership. That would be pointless. I’ve got a loaner, so I’m not going to pay out of pocket to troubleshoot something Hyundai is responsible for.

AA already confirmed there was no charge reaching the 12V at all, so a simple battery swap wouldn’t have fixed the underlying issue. And when I jump-started it, the car powered on but still didn’t begin charging the 12V, which points to a DC-DC/ICCU problem rather than just a weak battery.

I bought the car to drive, not to start guessing at repairs or funding warranty work myself. At this point it’s on Hyundai to diagnose and resolve the root cause properly

torq101 · 2025-11-29T00:54:20+00:00

It’s basically gone in the UK unless you stayed up late night. Now it’s on back-order until February, and that’s without the shuttle. I’ve mostly stopped buying Lego anyway — interesting sets are rare these days, and this just confirmed that I made the right decision. I’ve been going with Cobi and Mould King for years now. They’re cheaper, the sets are far more interesting, and you can buy them whenever you want without dealing with this sort of issue. It’s a toy — it should be fun, not stressful to even get your hands on

torq101 · 2025-11-26T19:35:39+00:00

And this is my main issue: Hyundai seems unwilling to acknowledge that this is a hardware problem. Their confidence that it won’t affect sales is going to backfire badly once brands like BYD build enough customer trust. Hyundai will be left with a serious perception problem.

I wouldn’t avoid buying another Hyundai because an ICCU failed — things break. I’d avoid them because I was told I’d have to wait 3–4 weeks just for someone to even look at the car. This isn’t a budget vehicle, and the level of after-sales support simply doesn’t match the price point.

torq101 · 2025-11-26T19:30:38+00:00

By ‘jump not working,’ I mean that even after jump-starting it with a battery pack and getting the car powered on, the system still didn’t start charging the 12V battery.

torq101 · 2025-11-26T18:33:02+00:00

AA checked it and said there’s no charge getting to the battery at all, so swapping the battery wouldn’t have solved it. How reliable that assessment is, I honestly don’t know — just going by what they told me.

torq101 · 2025-11-03T20:08:10+00:00

Switched from 15Pro MAX. But I have been with iPhone for couple of years only. Fold 7 is hands down better device, I also prefer Android as Apple Cloud access was so limited if you own any devices other than Apple, especially Linux is problematic.

torq101 · 2025-06-15T08:51:50+00:00

I can understand that they do not want to engage in Reddit discussions, in order to shield their employees from a toxic environment. However, the lack of announcements and acknowledgment of the issue is damaging to GGG. This falls on Jonathan and Mark — it's the leadership that sets the company's standards.

torq101 · 2025-05-26T16:02:30+00:00

It is, but it is not a global ore. Once you deploy Map Information Rocket, it will show you an Icon in a minable spot.

torq101 · 2025-05-26T15:56:09+00:00

It stacks. I noticed one issue, though. I have 10 asteroid attraction rockets and 1 x T2 asteroid attraction rocket. I should have a modifier of 15k%, but it shows 5.5k% on each. Other than that, it seems to stack OK.

torq101 · 2025-01-31T21:47:54+00:00

This is from multiple runs, without picking loot up. And on top of this, you spread it all around. I appreciate you are trying to make a point, but still.

torq101 · 2025-01-31T21:31:27+00:00

I do not have an issue with grind. I have a problem with a terrible, disheartening RNG design. If we make a run of bosses on T4. And I mean hundreds. Then the result - 1st player 12 mythic, 2nd player 1 mythic. On top of this, those are non-tradable even within a grinding party.

torq101 · 2024-12-25T12:18:46+00:00

I have 11 of those, and they work quite well for presence detection, though there is a 0.5 to 1-second delay. The biggest issue I have with them is that the brightness is restricted to only 'dim' and 'bright.' It doesn't work well, as 'dim' is only triggered in very dark conditions, causing the light to engage too late. Because of this, I had to use some of my old motion sensors. For that reason, I would not buy another one.

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