Unfortunately it currently isn’t possible to block instances.

But that also blocks “non-pornographic NSFW content”.

Indentured servants. Exactly how oligarchs prefer their workforce.

I definitely agree with that, and I really don’t have a good answer on how to create a financially secure image hosting service. But I do think that criticism of how they are approaching it on imgur at the moment is legitimate. In particular their intention of deleting pictures uploaded before the deadline by non-account users. This will only add to the unfathomable amount of link rot going on atm all over the internet.

Problem is that it is not just on the subject of cheating on your spouse that this is possible, any photographic evidence of a person committing an actual crime will also become worthless.

imgur is also in a downward spiral of entshittification though. No uploading without an account, and all old images uploaded by people with no accounts are going to get deleted.

They want to be a social media site now, not an image hosting site.

Some good recommendations already, but Schitt’s Creek is probably the series with the most positive feeling I’ve ever seen. Despite it containing conflict between characters, everybody are still tolerant of each other and you just get a good vibe from watching it.

It starts a bit slow, and initially you think the main characters are too insufferable, but the way the show slowly but surely forces you to reconsider those initial prejudices is really cleverly done as well.

As far as I understand it the block is only enforceable on chromium browsers. So firefox is unaffected.

I read the news about google wanting to do this some months ago, and I instantly switched to firefix from chrome. It was a very good decision.