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Unblock Google Cache in China

Posted by Hemos on from the time-for-us-to-get-blocked-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new feature in CustomizeGoogle (Firefox extension) modifies the Google Cache urls so that they are no longer blocked by the Chinese firewall. This feature is only available in CustomizeGoogle zh-CN, found here. This is how it works: All links to Google Cache, from the Google search result, are slightly modified. The Chinese Great Firewall doesn't recognize the new links as Google Cache links, and therefore they are accessible for everyone."

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  1. Links.... by hotbutteredhtml · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep trying, but all I get is "Nothing to see here please move along"

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    1. Re:Links.... by GoodOmens · · Score: 4, Funny

      Knowing the chinese:

      Those responsible have been sacked.

      Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

  2. Thanks, Slashdot, for helping China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Without the front-page attention, this might have slipped by unnoticed. The PRC would like to thank you for bringing this dangerous counter-revolutionary thinking to their attention.

  3. Shouldn't it read... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    the "Great Firewall of China" instead of "The Chinese Great Firewall"?

  4. Re:The cat's out of the bag now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not google doing this -- but it should be! Is the slogan:

    Do no evil.*

    *Not available in China.

  5. But I thought Google built the firewall by doublem · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is nutty.

    Didn't Google build the "Great Firewall of China"???

    Did Mao not pay his filtering bill this month?

    Is Google blackmailing China?????

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  6. Re:Your new masters will not be pleased... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    1. Unlock google cache in China
    2. Get sent to reeducation camp for 10 years
    3. Family gets billed for one bullet.
    4. Profit! (for google)
  7. Great Firewall of China by The_Rippa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I missed this whole thing...are they trying to keep the Mongolians out of their network?

  8. Forget the plug-in for the Chinese... by sweetnjguy29 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I need a plug-in to access the google cache links here at work! Any suggestions to get around my firewall in the States?

  9. Do no evil? by pmike_bauer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha! Have you seen their logo today? That looks evil to me.

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    I read /. for the (Score:-1, Conservative) comments.
  10. Re:The cat's out of the bag now... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whereas Microsoft's slogan is:

    Do evil.*

    *Except in Nebraska.

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  11. It's just another obstructive competition tactic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everybody whines that posting this loophole to /. means the end of the loophole. What ya'll don't seem to realize is that this is another tactic to make Chinese business less competitive; by forcing the closure of access to as much of the web as possible, western capitalist societies assure their own continued advantage by free access to information while tricking their Chinese competitors into wearing blindfolds.

  12. Re:Fighting against public knowledge by rdoger6424 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how big stupid reversal jokes will have to get before they realize that it's hopeless to control Soviet Russia

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