Bypass Flickr Ban with Firefox Plugin
By Curt on Dec 7, 2007 in Firefox, Saudi Arabia, Flickr, Hamed Saber, Iran, UAE, China
I discovered today via VentureBeat a Firefox plugin that works to circumvent Flickr bans without the use of a proxy.
According to Digital Inspiration, the plugin, called Access Flickr, was developed by Hamed Saber, an Iranian photographer who uses Flickr heavily.
The Access Flickr extension for Firefox substitutes the HTTP header parameters before sending a request to Flickr and therefore fools the government filters. This extension is only for accessing Flickr.com, it won’t work for other sites like YouTube or Orkut.
If you live in one of the many countries where Flickr is blocked and use a Firefox browser, you can download Access Flickr from the Mozilla site.
Flickr is, or has been, blocked in Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and China. Can anyone attest as to whether the block is still in place in these countries? Have I missed any?
Jadi | Dec 7, 2007 | Reply
yes it is still filtered in Iran and most of the people are using this plugin to bypass it. This works great.
Curt | Dec 7, 2007 | Reply
Thanks, Jadi.
Cowardly bastard | May 13, 2008 | Reply
As I recall, UAE’s filter is provided by Secure Computing, whose startup funding came from DARPA. Indeed, Secure Computing still provides proxy controls for the US military and, indeed, Flickr is also banned on US military networks.