youtube, now with 100% less dubai!
So much for video fun on chrisdiclerico.com. YouTube is now completely blocked in Dubai. That means I can’t view, post, or enjoy, YouTube’s video goodness. For any of you reading from Dubai, any posts you find that say “AWESOME”, “funny”, “hilarious!”, etc, followed by a big empty white space, that’s where the embedded videos used to be.
First it was boingboing and Flickr, and now this. It’s really starting to get on my nerves.
[thanks etisalat.]
Why are they blocking everything?
Why haven’t you set up a proxy?
What about google video?
Or how about spikedhumor.com?
can you email your comments and youtube links to one of your US chrisdiclerico.com admin friends to post on your behalf?
Google Video is OK so far. SpikedHumor is blocked.
Murphy, thanks for your innovative suggestion, except I think the whole point is that I can’t WATCH TouTube video’s in order to know what to post…
http://www.digg.com/security/How_to_Bypass_Most_Firewall_Restrictions_and_Access_the_Internet_Privately_2
of course you need someone else to set up the openSSH server for you.
YouTube is in fact still available in Dubai if you are a subscriber to DIC Telecom’s services or work in DMC.
You can use www3.youtube.com.
Do you still have Wikipedia over there?
China blocked it last June–and I was there all July and August. Grr… knowledge deprivation.
The www3 path is now blocked, no YouTube at all in Dubai.
YouTube is now unblocked in Dubai. Dont know for how long..