If you’re currently viewing this in China, then you clearly already know how to use a proxy. If you’re planning on coming to China soon, you might jot the following down now…
EDITED 7/5/08: Anonymouse goes in and out, Iphide is kaput, proxychina.org also blocked.
http://www.anonymouse.org – Allows you to view sites like Livejournal, Wikipedia, BBC, Blogger. A pesky ad floats around on each screen, but can be closed without interrupting anything.
http://www.iphide.com – Allows you to view & SIGN IN to sites. Essential if you want to leave comments or make posts in Lj. Has very annoying advertisement page that pops up every time you want to navigate to next page and you have to click “Continue Browsing” to do just that.
Because the online proxies are particularly unreliable with the Olympics coming up in August, consider sticking to the reliable, but slow – Tor (use with Firefox and you can toggle it on and off to view blocked sites while opening other non-blocked sites in a separate browser like Safari or IE)
For PC users: UltraSurf is also another installable proxy program that seems to work at lightning speeds in China, as long as it connects properly. But you need a proxy to view that page and download!
A tip about Downloading files from this site…Currently, Box.net is not blocked by the firewall. So here’s a tip if you have encountered difficulties downloading files via the proxies.
- Right Click on the download link and select “Copy Link Location”
- Open a new browser window, or just paste the link into current address bar
- It should look something like this:
http://www.iphide.org/ads.php/010100A/http/www.box.net/public/pm0ko3m2rh OR
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.box.net/shared/trm5e34arx - Now delete the “proxy” part of the address and you’ll be left with the original site like this:
www.box.net/public/pm0ko3m2rh OR
http://www.box.net/shared/trm5e34arx - Hit Go, Enter… and continue as normal
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November 30, 2007 at 1:34 am
chinkerfly
And for the fastest way around the Firewall for Blogger, WordPress, and Wikipedia (?) check this out http://chongqingguide.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/firewall/
July 6, 2008 at 3:26 am
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