I'm in the UK, due to differences of opinion between Imgur owners and the UK government whenever i access a thread with an embedded imgur picture imgur sends the following picture
if i see this it usually reminds me to turn on my VPN, however connect seems to have cached this image so that even when, after i VPN to another location, i refresh it regurgitates the above instead of the actual picture (below)
I managed to work around this by going to Settings -> Cache Stats -> Scroll to the bottom -> Clear cache and then refreshing the page but clearing the entire cache every time someone comments with a picture while i don't have my VPN on is a little onerous.
I imagine this affects all UK users of the app, along with anyone in any other jurisdiction that Imgur is blocking.
The response headers from imgur are noticeably different for actual pictures, vs the "not available in your region" picture. could this picture be exempted from being cached?
I managed to replicate the issue using PIA streaming optimized servers (other vpns will probably work too)
Steps to Recreate
- Connect VPN to PIA Server: UK Streaming Optimized
- Clear image cache in Connect
- Access the comment at this location: https://feddit.uk/post/43557032/22931555
- Connect VPN to PIA Server: Australia Streaming Optimized
- Access comment at same location with Connect again
Expected Behaviour
Blocked image should not have been cached, Non blocked image should be shown
Current Behaviour
Blocked image is cached, and thus shown