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Fuck that.

That’s usually due to supporters of the forum in question flagging it to prevent others from viewing it easily. If you have the mobile Imgur app it can view the link without being signed in.

It’s also due to Imgur’s new anti-user policy trying to get more logins.

They could easily have a button to bypass, but require signin. Same with YouTube and others following this asshole design pattern.

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