Showstopper -- need urgent help...!

[gilknut]

No more VEF for me?

As of today, my internet provider, doing the Government's bidding, has decided to completely ban pimpandhost.com.

If I try to open any image hosted there, I'm being redirected to a page where the police explains that due to allegations of child pornography, the domain is now banned in my country. (Which country is irrelevant, but it's a usually very civilized European one; not Russia or Albania or North Korea, as one might think...)

The upload plugin does not show up either, of course. I upload quite a large amount of pics to VEF these days, but I simply can't be bothered to use anything but the on-site plugin I've used so far, and anyway it wouldn't help me look at/download other's pics hosted at pimpandhost. I can of course use a proxy site to look at an individual pic, but that's obviously not a lasting solution.

Does anyone know of an easy way to circumvent this crap? I'm not inclined to pay for a VPN service, but I'm also extremely reluctant to let these misguided *beeps* control my internet browsing.

I'm afraid my use of/contributions to VEF has come to an end if I can't find a way around this... I would dearly appreciate any help/tips/advice, possibly incuding an armed overthrow of my government...

[frakacylon]

imagebam offer a quicker, more stable service for sharing.

As for viewing content, you will need some sort of proxy or VPN to access as I am sure your government has got the ISP's by the proverbial short and curlys.

Sorry man

[BCFC_1982]

I thought we were contributing financially by the use the pimp

[Pepper II]

I've removed several off-topic and argumentative posts from this thread. Please; if you don't have something positive to contribute just move on. Thanks.

No one here is obligated or even encouraged to use P&H. I use Imagebam, myself but some prefer Imagevenue or Imgbox. This is only helpful if you wish to contribute by posting, of course so please don't be deterred.

gilknut: I've brought this to the attention of the other staff members to see if we can help you in some way. Please be patient.

[gilknut]

Update: Seems there are a few free VPN services that are fairly stable according to reliable reviewing sites; testing out a few for now. One I tested solved the problem immediately, giving me swift access to P&H including the VEF plugin, but that one had limited traffic size for free users... Will update when I find a better alternative, meanwhile thanks for encouraging mod response.

Edit: For the time being I use a free, academic project called VPN Gate. So far full access to P&H and I just uploaded a post using the normal plugin here on VEF. (I won't link to it, and I'm sure you'll remove the name if you don't want it here, but I doubt I'm the only one from my country or others who might encounter this problem here.)

[Pepper II]

One of our Moderators is from your country and he reports Pimp & Host is now inaccessible for him as well. It seems a proxy is the only alternative.

[gilknut]

Originally Posted by Pepper II

One of our Moderators is from your country and he reports Pimp & Host is now inaccessible for him as well. It seems a proxy is the only alternative.

I've uploaded a decent amount of pics since yesterday with no big problems, so it seems so far VPN Gate works well (being free, non-profit and largely dependent on volunteers in much the same way as a P2P network, it can sometimes cause a slight dip in the traffic speed, but not that much). There are a few other alternatives as well apparently; let me know if I should post some links or if your moderator needs/wants any info.