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At the moment the page loads on my Verizon Wireless Blackberry.
by ElllisD 17y ago
At the moment the page loads on my Verizon Wireless Blackberry.
- metamemetics 17y ago"Note: Users with mobile browsers that proxy (BlackBerry, Opera) won't necessarily have issues accessing the boards." -Moot http://status.4chan.org/index.html#7155425685835498189 http://status.4chan.org/index.html#7155425685835498189
- Zev 17y agoI thought that blackberries had their own network? Wasn't there was a big outage for blackberries awhile back that didn't affect other smartphones?
- blhack 17y agoKindof...blackberries proxy all of their web traffic through RIM. One of the reasons (I think) why they do this is so that they can compress images.
- andyking 17y agoWhen I use my Vodafone USB stick on their UK 2G network, they silently proxy everything and compress images - it's dreadful. On 3G, they seem to let images through in their original state. They're also pretty censorious. Needless-to-say, the likes of 4chan and porn are blocked on Vodafone's cellular network. But so are Flickr, Meebo, Google Talk and a whole host of other inoffensive yet useful websites. All redirect to a page telling you that they're barred by "content control". Why can cellular operators get away with blocking stuff that other ISPs would never dream of filtering out? Why should it be any different whether I'm accessing the net through my Vodafone dongle or my ADSL line?
- randallsquared 17y agoWhy can cellular operators get away with blocking stuff Why have you not switched providers to protest the blocking? Ultimately, those questions have the same answer (literally), I think.