Getting around the Great Firewall

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 onto your C:/ drive (Right-click on link, Save…)
2. Open Firefox.* In the Menu look for go to Tools>>Options>>Advanced>>Network
3. Click on Settings
4. Select “Automatic Proxy Configuration URL” and type in file:///C:/proxy.pac
5. 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 to your desktop (Ctrl-click on link, Save link as…)
2. Open Firefox.* In the Menu go to Preferences>>Advanced>>Network
3. Click on Settings
4. Select “Automatic Proxy Configuration URL” and type in file:///Users/YourComputerUsernameHere/desktop/proxy.pac
5. 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

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