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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. Re:The cat's out of the bag now... by Trevahaha · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not Google that is doing this.

  2. You could also.. by Gamzarme · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...do the same thing with a proxy.
    Cache over proxy..very nice.

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    1. Re:You could also.. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Informative
      Yeah, it's weird. I don't understand it either, but that's what happens. I theorize that the 'toxic' blocking is done by hostname, because I can go to www.bbc.co.uk but not news.bbc.co.uk. Voice of America and .mil sites are some others that will get RST. My simple unencrypted squid proxy in the USA will bypass all the other 'blocked' sites.

      The shittiest part of being behind the Great Wall is the horrible connection speeds. I usually get 5-10k/s to slashdot and other sites, with a 300ms ping and 3% PL that makes typing at a unix shell lots of fun. I cry on the rare occasion that I go to Chinese websites, then I get my typical broadband 400k/s.

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  3. Re:The cat's out of the bag now... by Pinefresh · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm pretty sure its not google thats doing this. Its the Customize Google firefox extension

  4. The Not So Great Wall by rueger · · Score: 5, Informative

    FWIW a journalist friend who lives in China assures me that anyone who needs it has already figured out one way or another of bypassing the so-called Great Wall. Usually via proxies from what I'm told.

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  5. A little update on the state of the great Firewall by kemikalzen · · Score: 5, Informative

    can be found on this site here:

    http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/ globalization/goldenShieldEng.html

    this is truly some 1984'esque reading

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  6. Re:China won't take lightly. by i23098 · · Score: 3, Informative
    because its a communist nation that will squash what it doesn't approve of


    Just plain wrong. In communist nation everything belongs to everyone, so does information... In a facism nation the dictador does the rules. There is a big difference betweem them (PS - All the so called communist regimes so far have nothing to do with communism)

    Check this page found in about 2 sec on google to learn the differences between regimes...

    PS - If you find any english error remember, I probably write english better than you write portuguese :p
  7. Re:Fighting against public knowledge by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to one of my friends who visited China twice for 2-3 months, they REALLY think that Tibet has been well treated by their country, and that no war nor genocide really happened there. They even say that they have to treat 'Tibetans' (read, chinese people now living in Tibet) as special when they visit China...

    I think you're right, they're pretty efficient at controlling information :(

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  8. Re:The cat's out of the bag now... by bst82551 · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the first few results in a google search for "microsoft nebraska": https://www.microsoftproductssettlement.com/nebras ka/home.htm Brian

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  9. Re:I wonder how the Chinese ban stuff anyways... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure they would. Take a look at Harvard University's study of China's most blocked websites!