I use imgur links for my sig/ava, do these links expire?

Can't figure out another reason why the sig/ava would just randomly stop working over the last 12 hours. I copied and pasted the link into my web browser to see what would happen and I was greeted with "potential security risk". Pretty confusing, hopefully someone could shed some light on why this happened, if it's common and if there's a way to create a more stable link in the future so it doesn't happen again.

thanks in advance you beautiful people

I mean right now yours are working fine.

But there is a chance that over time some images get deleted and need to be reuploaded, but I only ever see that if I'm looking at an old thread that's years old.

I also see your sig/ava perfectly fine. I've never had any imgur links expire. Maybe a browser issue, were they invisible or showing a broken image logo?

It appears that imgur has been flagged by my pc as a potential security risk. Nobody has there sig/ava on my screen. I'm trying to take screen shots and post them of what I see, but that's proving difficult for my pleb brain. I went to discord pasted my pic, pressed copy link. tiny url'd it. and those won't even display in img format, just shows the tiny url shown below

https://tinyurl.com/yc6nwy3h

https://tinyurl.com/3cac5re3

This post was edited by thumpr on Sep 2 2025 12:17am

Any ideas on how to resolve this? I believe I'll need access to imgur and for it to not be considered a "Potential Security Risk".
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There isn't really anything anyone else can do - you will have to figure out what program/software/firewall is flagging it and toggle it back off.

So I did a little research on where the block was coming from and found that my new tmobile internet hotspot for at home wifi has a content filter on it and blocks imgur from being accessible. I don't believe there's much I can do albeit give tmobile a call tomorrow.

This post was edited by thumpr on Sep 4 2025 06:21pm

Are you not able to access and alter that filter?

pre-post edit: I googled how to change it and this is what came up. Hopefully this helps.

unfortunately I can't view your images. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oddly enough my sig/ava are working fine now, but I can't see your sig/ava or the img you just linked lol. I can't be the only person having this issue. It's completely random of who's sig/ava I can view. This makes me feel like maybe it's not the imgur filter. idek

Lmao I didnt even think of that. My bad. Give me a little bit when I'm back on my PC and I'll copy/paste the text for you.