While following this link from Amazon’s homepage. It somehow directs me to the blocked page. Looking through the URL we see this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html/ref=amb_link_6695222_2? location=http://tinyurl.com/4d52v9& token=99A753FC8CD50881C10623D5E99A4B33FA86F3EE& pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-4& pf_rd_r=03F76YT47YM9WV0RZBRM&pf_rd_t=101& pf_rd_p=385233201&pf_rd_i=507846 A perfectly legitimate use of tinyurl.com‘s service which is made by Amazon, the leading online e-commerce website. Take your time and post the long url in this
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Posts Tagged ‘Blocked in Saudi’:
Blocked in Saudi: Amazon.com oh wait, its just tinyurl.com
Blocked in Saudi: Dailymotion.com
Dailymotion is another video website that was not-blocked until this week. No reasons for the block was given, Dailymotion’s own terms of service prohibit sexual content. As usual, go and fill this form to help unblock it. Also email them at unblock@internet.gov.sa and fax if you can +966 (1) 2639290. Update: dailymotion.com is no longer
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Blocked in Saudi: Vimeo video service
The online video site, Vimeo, was blocked by for over a month now by Internet.gov.sa. This is an excerpt from Vimeo’s Wikipedia page: Vimeo allows only user-created videos, of a “friends and family” nature. No pornography, TV shows, music videos, movies or anything not created by the user can be uploaded. As usual, you can
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Cable Cutters and Flickr blockage
I am sure you know about the damage Internet cables which made this week a very very SLOW week for me. And reports of 4 cables damaged in total, bad cables or some conspiracy? Who knows. What about flickr, for some reason, this photo is blocked (it is the photo of an iPhone after being
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Blocked in Saudi: Blogspot images
Google’s Blogspot service offers free blog hosting and management. The annoying thing is that images there are blocked for no reason. Another one of those “Block everything because of a few bad things”. For example, this post from the Google Operating System blog, an unofficial Google blog, this image is blocked for no reason. And
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Squidoo.com blocked in Saudi Arabia
For no known reason, Squidoo.com is blocked. I would urge everyone to go to this form and fill it so we can get it unblocked as soon as possible. As for what to type in the reason for unblock, you could use the following sentence taken from Wikipedia: Squidoo is a website designed to make
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