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

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

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    Pat
  2. 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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    Three Squirrels
  3. 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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    Bodø community site