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Feb 28, 2026 12:44 AM
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wambu
I've use Pi-Hole. I never see an advert.
RetiredLaserMan
Nord vpn FTW
DJThuglifeSupreme
And the video keeps playing, so you end up missing something
Evi1Gav
Run a decent firewall, run adguardhome or a pihole. Wonder what all these ads people are talking about are.
duktayp
The ad: "DOWNLOAD THIS TO STOP POP-UP ADS!"
DarkDesertHighway
Modern solutions require modern problems
CASchoeps
UBlock Origin.
Jamerperson
Imgur doesnt give a shit anymore.
firlefranz
Grimlinnan
Ad blocking is the only use for AI.
LogicalLimes
Oh good. I thought this was just me or some kinda bug on my phone.
Yes! This is fucking annoying!
Sebastopol140
It's a feature.
Hmuda
djmccMovieJumper
I thought it was just me fat fingering something.
PolitiCat
Use DNS adblockers like PiHole.
Kangadilla
Ads...? People still don't block ads, what yer is it?
ThisGuyPostingThings
App? Ad? I don't understand.
Niagaran
Right? I'm on a website with an adblock and I've even censored out the mountain of crap at the bottom of the page.
thisisnotfineffs
Shpadoinkleman
The problem is that you're using the app
Racealistic
I use the app with a dns ad blocker and got gifted emerald before they fired the human employees the app is better than the website for me currently.
scragman
Use an adblocking dns at home and you won't have to worry about it.
glittalogik
and an adblocking DNS on your device when you're not at home.
TK421isAFK
I'm running Firefox and uBlock Origin on my phone at a friend's house right now. Fuck MediaLabs.
BestofUwU
I actually enjoy playing the game ads that lets you browse X hours without ads. If I don't get the game I want, I close the app and reopen till I find the game I want.
r0b0tc0rpse
ad blocker
bobgunrunnersmith
What kind of ad? Honestly, I've not seen any ads here.
Tenugui
Yeah, tell that no-point noob to get rekt /s
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
Because you have Imgur Emerald, presumably for free because of how many points you have.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Neither have I. I'm guessing you don't use the app either and instead open imgur in a proper browser with much-needed security features like adblock. Good on you resisting the wholly unnecessary appification of the internet.
herpb4uderp
Just use brave or ublock ?
Hippopotamuswhale
Imgur has started to limit usage on mobile devices, specially on phones if you dont install the app. The site simply refuses to work if used on phone. Funny enough, it starts to work, if you put "desktop mode" but its fucked up. Also they seem to limit what countries can access their site. Sweden example is banned and funny enough, some usa states seem to also been banned. I tested with changing vpn locations and if you switch to blocked it, you get 503 error. At first I though it was error ->
Hippopotamuswhale
but after testing its deliberate. They dont say you are blocked, they just send 503 error that goes immediately away if you change location again. App prioritises ads so it uses your data to first show you the ads and then doesnt give a fuck about anything else. This is now same old shit site, that tries to sell you stuff. OC content is limited, its mostly now women pics and ai slop. No more fun hand drawn or made content so much. lots politics. imgur is gone after latest owners bought it.
rmx256
CREAM
Capitalism
Ruins
Everything
Around
Me
WebDragonG3
stop using imgur on your phone and browse it on your laptop. the experience is SO much better it's not even funny. the app is complete waste of phone storage space
vystral
Yep it’s annoying as hell. Haven’t seen that though on my home WiFi since I changed the DNS on my router to adguard.
TheRealDude19047
I don't see and ads on my phone since a while. My browser is DuckDuckGo since about 2 years
Bojovnik84
I've never seen that one. Just a bottom banner.
jaaaaay34
AtomicChipmunk
Android
Settings > Connections > Moar Connection Settings > type text dns.adguard.com > hit save.
This is free... no downloads needed. Removes ads from all my apps (not YouTube ( Firefox + ad block plug-in for ad free YT)
Have a nice day
ChewyTheWookie
TK421isAFK
Yeah, no. They collect a shit ton of your browser search data and sell it.
GeantDeTitane
Yeah, because Google and a lot of others do not collect your infos to give you better ads.
Even if what you say is true, I prefer to give the same infos to people who don't show me ads.
TK421isAFK
You are already giving it to Google if you're using a phone with Android, or the Chrome browser. Now you're just adding another layer of invasion and personal information access to a company that does not publicly state what it does with it, nor how long they retain it.
Theniyaal
As someone who uses dns.adguard, a source for that claim would be nifty.
TK421isAFK
Adguard DNS is a Russian company, based in Cyprus, but all DNS requests bounce off of servers physically located in Russia. That's why the DNS queries take much longer to resolve. If you think your browsing history is safe with that Russian company, you really need to get answers you will trust rather than from some random person on the internet.
Theniyaal
Spectacularly unhelpful, was hoping you'd already have found this out from a reputable source and could have shared instead of "trust me bro", but fuck me, I guess.
If anyone else is curious, I'll report back if I find anything useful.
Froggie243
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AtomicChipmunk
TK421isAFK
"We are safe and trustworthy because we said we are safe and trustworthy. Trust us, just like Boeing."
Theniyaal
No fan of AI summaries, but in a relatively surface level search, I didn't find anything that contradicts what's posted there. Seems the servers have been in the Netherlands and/or Germany and they'd be subject to EU laws regarding privacy and data collection.
Can't find anything at all stating the servers are in Russia, just that the company originated there.
quietwalker
I've never seen ads on imgur, because adblockers existed prior to the existence of imgur, and I'm not going to ever use a phone app when a desktop browser version of a site exists.
cokebot9000
Found the gen-x er!
Noevilgifs
I use adguards dns service
allformmo34
This one bit of information has saved me so much hassle. I've used it for years and it's priceless...and free
cousteau
There's even a mobile browser version of the site and it works kinda OK.
Rhazi
Just use your desktop guys, never use your phone. Just don’t go outside. Don’t have lives. Stay at home and only look at IMGUR on your computer, guys! Problem solved, throw away your phones, duh.
TK421isAFK
I wish you were smart enough to comprehend how desktop browsers can be used on a phone. I'm doing it right now with Firefox w/uBlock Origin.
delightphil
Download an older version of the app or use an ad-blacker.
deltaforcain
Invest in a small homeserver. I have never seen an ad on Imgur, and I have never used it on desktop, only the app.
Ricdesan
(super long nodding golf clap with goofy Duane Johnson face)
offroadguy56
I do miss the app. I can't image/favorite react in comments. I don't get notifications for my follows. The website only goes back a few hours of posts. I left the app cause I canceled my subscription and BD just added mid swipe ads. Couldn't find an APK to roll back to that didn't force me to update. Running adblock now. I'm on imgur now only a few times a day cause of it.
TsubakiTragic
^^ is 100% correct. Never, ever, use an app from a social media site.
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
You wouldn't see them here anyway because you have imgur emerald
quietwalker
Well, yeah, but I mean, I never did before that. :)
boevis
I assume the people that see ads on imgur are the same people that ads on imgur work on.
vystral
I assume it’s just people using the app on mobile without any sort of systemwide adblocker.
AntiProtonBoy
The desktop version is utter shit.
quietwalker
Yeah, but the mobile version, like every mobile version of every site, is so, so, SO much worse. The only way they can really spur wide adoption of them is by actually removing features from the web version and only allowing them in the app.
This also allows them to track better and directly associate all that juicy data with your account personally.
dashers
For a long time they blocked mobile web for this reason. Desktop or app were your only choices for logging in.
hogeyegrex
I’ve got an adblocker on my phone that works for apps as well as browsers. Fuck you business daddy.
ialoneambest
What ad blocker do you use, please?
ExceptFluffyDuck
DNS 66
PerrinAybara564
This is how I block ads on my phone
hyjukilo
Not the guy you asked, but I use Firefox+uBlock Origin on my phone, and don't get ads. As long as I use web, and ignore suggestions to open in app (which I don't even have installed).
IAmASentientWaffle
AdGuard and Blokada can block ads (and trackers, etc.) system-wide.
hogeyegrex
What KB said.
KellionBane
Blokada 5.
LunarEntropy
Blok dot
hogeyegrex
That’s the one. Good stuff, ain’t it?
mirrorz
I was apparently given "emerald" at some point and shouldn't see ads, but I've always used adblockers on my desktop since I've been here so I've never seen an ad anyway.
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jakeoflake
what is this adblocker? mine dosent work
hogeyegrex
Blockada.
pancreas
oh what the hell? i just learned i have emerald. i have no idea what it is or what it does because i've always had ad blockers.
DragonThunderUndertaking
Yeah they used to give it to you after a certain level of karma and awards I think. I had it on a previous account never even used it, deleted that account at some point and wondered where all the ads came from. Same with blockers it's annoying on the app though.
itsokimaussie
Try using dns level add blocking on your mobile device . Mullvad vpn has free dns servers that block a variety of things including ads. As do ControlD.
Rivalyn
It's a gift -period- of Emerald, not forever emerald. Once it runs out, probably in a month, you gotta pay for Emerald. And you have to specifically activate it in your account settings.
mirrorz
I got it years ago due to high points or something. I dont work here. Talk to a manager.
AntiProtonBoy
I was given an emerald years ago and still going.
IceWeaselX
It depends on the version of free Emerald. I know some things like the Imgur Arcade gave limited duration Emerald status. Some of us got permanent Emerald status after reaching some point total over 100k points. Might be 110k? Mine didn't activate until quite a while after 100k.
I'm not sure if they still do this for point milestones.
ExTechOp
Like others, I was also at some point given free Emerald by Imgur, and it yet hasn't run out. Then again, I'm not sure I'd notice, since I'm running heavy ad blocking anyway. Though, do longer comments also come with Emerald?
And the obligatory "Fuck Business Daddy."
IceWeaselX
Longer comments were just a general upgrade last year. People still stuck on 150 characters are on an older version of the app.