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Opera does. It has this "off road" mode, which does the same thing. Its supposed to be some sort of caching for slow connection, but as the proxys, or what ever
by alan_cx 13y ago
Opera does. It has this "off road" mode, which does the same thing. Its supposed to be some sort of caching for slow connection, but as the proxys, or what ever, are outside the UK, all the banned sites work.
I am surprised Firefox and Chrome don't have plugins which do the same thing.
Also, YIFY torrents, amongst other things, hide behind Cloudflare. UK ISPs cant block cloudflare. Well, they can, but the fallout would be somewhat amusing.
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What sickens me is that we in the UK bend over for the US film industry, blocking sites the US will not ever block. IMHO, this is not just absurd but a disgusting double standard our gov force on us in order to suck up to the US gov. I can understand the US acting like it one rule for them, but the idea that a foreign government volunteers its population to be sub the rest of the human race angers me something rotten.
- khc 13y agoI installed opera on my phone when I was visiting China, with unintended side effect: Opera used a proxy in China even after I was no longer in China, as a result I was subjected to GFW even when after I left[1]. Looks like they decided which proxy to use at install time if you installed it in China[2]. Took me a while to figure out why certain sites were only failing in opera. 1: https://plus.google.com/+KaHingCheung/posts/AiyxGBjsHjo https://plus.google.com/+KaHingCheung/posts/AiyxGBjsHjo 2: https://plus.google.com/+KaHingCheung/posts/b12Xh2aAcEu https://plus.google.com/+KaHingCheung/posts/b12Xh2aAcEu
- mseebach 13y ago> Also, YIFY torrents, amongst other things, hide behind Cloudflare. UK ISPs cant block cloudflare Perhaps not, but YIFY torrents is certainly blocked on Virgin Media.