Results tagged “hotspotshield”

(h/t to Zhongnanhai) It's just about time, isn't it, that Anonymouse came up with its own toolbar, so we don't have to go to its website each time we want to purvey the tonnes of dissident and pornographic material on Blogspot, Wikipedia and Wordpress? The toolbar for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox on Windows, Mac OS and Linux can be downloaded for FREE here. Other options that have worked wonders for us include the Gladder add-on for Firefox and the VPN Hotspot Shield.

So in the meanwhile, Youtube remains blocked. Shanghai blogger John Pasden of Sinosplice informs us that Youtube wasn't the only unlucky fella. Revver.com and Dailymotion.com also appear to be hit. And of course Google Video was never accessible in China to begin with, so that's a no-count.

Even weirder stuff than the Youtube block seems to have been happening, though. Apparently, for a short while on the 17th, before the Youtube block occurred, blogsearch.google.com and live.com were both redirected to Baidu! Blogsearch.google.cn was totally inaccessible. This has been confirmed by Ken Wong (see screencaps on his blog) and other Chinese netizens. Google Blogoscoped reported that yet more exotic pages like search.ibm.com.cn were also being hijacked to Baidu.