Blocked in Saudi Arabia: Rapidshare!
Today, Wednesday December 2nd, approximately 7 a.m. in the end of the Eid holiday. Rapidshare got blocked, more specifically rapidshare.com/files/ got blocked. The choice of time is very strange and right now this is how I am feeling:
We need to have it unblocked as soon as possible, email CITC: unblock@internet.gov.sa. Faxing is also good: +966 (1) 2639290 . And fill this unblock request form.
Blocked in Saudi Arabia: Google video search
This is not a total block but depending on your search query then google video search is blocked. A regular google video string is usually:
video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=searchterm
Which is blocked! But moving the "hl=en" argument:
video.google.com/videosearch?q=searchterm&hl=en
Opens the result. This is most likely a blocking mistake and needs to be corrected (by unblocking of course).
Help unblock it by filling the form at internet.gov.sa, writing an email to unblock@internet.gov.sa or sending a fax to +966(1)2639290.
Blocked in Saudi: Digg.com sections
Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. A section of digg: digg.com/celebrity and news under that is entirely blocked for no reason. (Digg link by bianconeri4ever).
Help unblock it by filling the form at internet.gov.sa, writing an email to unblock@internet.gov.sa or sending a fax to +966(1)2639290.
Blocked in Saudi: hydroponics websites?
hydroponics: the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil. Then why are the following websites blocked?
- www.hydroponicsonline.com
- www.home.aone.net.au/~hydroponics/ (and apparently ALL websites hosted on www.home.aone.net.au are blocked!)
Help unblock it by filling the form at internet.gov.sa, writing an email to unblock@internet.gov.sa or sending a fax to +966(1)2639290.
DailyMotion unblocked in Saudi Arabia
I reported 5 months ago that dailymotion was blocked. Now I am happy to report that DailyMotion is unblocked and available!
Google Translate adds more languages, still blocked in Saudi Arabia
Google Translate added support for more languages. The added languages are: Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
In Saudi Arabia, only translating text a text box is available. But trying to translate an actual website, for education purposes perhaps? And it is blocked! The blocked URL: http://translate.google.com/translate is blocked and looks like there is only reason/category for blocking sites, categorydescriptionlist=Pornography! Yes! Pornography!
As usual, help us out by filling this unblock request form!
Blocked in Saudi: An Australian ISP hosting site
One of the most frustrating things is having a full ISP blocked just because of a single questionable item. An example is the blocking of http://members.iinet.net.au/ which is a hosting service provided to the users of an internet service provider in Australia called iinet. Now I cannot view the images hosted at this blog because their images hosted here are blocked! As usual, fill this form!
Blocked in Saudi: Amazon’s Images?!
Visitors of Amazon's European sites will notice a lack of images. The images website is - for no reason at all - blocked. The blocked URL is:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/
This will certainly disturb any e-shoppers out there, so remember to fill this form to have it unblocked!
Blocked in Saudi Arabia: web applications site and a firefox tool?
This tool that is provided to offer importing of delicious links into Firefox 3.0. For some reason it was blocked! Here is a screenshot of this service:
Veoh is no longer available in SAUDI ARABIA
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