For those hosting their own PieFed instances, this is very easy to disable (I think it was ALLOW_4CHAN=True in the env). I turned it off because I didn't like the OCR scanning every upload and locking up my tiny 2 core server for a few seconds.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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It's also a checkbox on the admin/misc settings to make it easier to disable.
I’ve read the other comments but my first thought was OCR banning 6-7
