Livin' In The Chonx

To view most blogging sites and others deemed “unacceptable” in China you will need to use a proxy like Anonymouse or if you have your own computer try the following workaround. [Originally found this fix at Lostlaowai]

Viewing Blogger, Wordpress, Wikipedia without a proxy

[For PC]

1. Save this: gfw-hack.doc onto your C:/ drive
2. Change the extension from .doc to .pac (right-click on file>>”Get Info” then type in the new extension)
3. Open Firefox.* In the Menu look for go to Tools>>Options>>Advanced>>Network
4. Click on Settings
5. Select “Automatic Proxy Configuration URL” and type in file:///C:/gfw-hack.pac
6. Click reload or apply then okay and it should work. Maybe close your browser and start it up again.

[For Mac]

1. Save this: gfw-hack.doc to your desktop
2. Change the extension from .doc to .pac (right-click on file>>”Get Info”>>”Name & Extension” then type in the new extension)
3. Open Firefox.* In the Menu go to Preferences>>Advanced>>Network
4. Click on Settings
5. Select “Automatic Proxy Configuration URL” and type in file:///Users/YourComputerUsernameHere/desktop/gfw-hack.pac
6. Click reload or apply then okay and it should work. Maybe close your browser and start it up again.

*If you’re not already using Firefox isn’t it time you switched anyway? It is, however, possible to make this work for other browsers like Safari. “To set this as a system-wide preference in Mac OS X go to System Preferences > Network > Network Status > double click on your preferred connection - the one with a green dot next to it > Proxies > Select a proxy server to configure: Automatic Proxy Configuration > Proxy Configuration File: file://localhost/Users/kevin/Desktop/proxy.pac, or whatever the path to the file is as mentioned above, but with “file://localhost” at the beginning this time.” –The Weifang Radish blog+comment