Flickr Blues? Bash the Block

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For anyone in the PRC, you may have noticed that Flickr images have been blocked lately. Getting onto the site isn’t a problem, but it would appear the site that serves the images has made the ever-fluctuating black list of the Great Firewall of China.

Fortunately, John over at Sinosplice was nice enough to share Access Flickr!, a little gem of a Firefox plugin that lets all us unfortunate to be subject to the schitzo on again off again (more off again) whims of the GFW view Flickr in all its photographical glory.

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Squareface
June 12, 2007
5:14 pm

Thanks loads for the useful advice! Definitely helped me manoeuvre around the great firewall.

Ryan
June 12, 2007
6:22 pm

That’s what we’re here for Well, credit really needs to go to Sinosplice, and he gives credit to a Flickr board (or something)… but it’s all about sharing

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eoin
October 3, 2007
10:19 pm

Hi, but unfortunately after installing firefox and the access flickr plug in, I still cannot login to flickr at https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=flickr&.scrumb=0&new=1&.pd=c%3DE0.GahOp2e4MjkX.5l2HgAoLkpmyPvccpVM-&.intl=us&.logout=1&.direct=1&.done=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.yahoo.com%2Fconfig%2Fvalidate%3F.src%3Dflickr%26.pc%3D5134%26.scrumb%3D0%26.pd%3Dc%253DE0.GahOp2e4MjkX.5l2HgAoLkpmyPvccpVM-%26.intl%3Dus%26.done%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fsignin%252Fyahoo%252F

Ryan
October 3, 2007
10:33 pm

@Eoin: The Access Flickr plugin is not for helping you log into Flickr - that, best I know, isn’t blocked (or wasn’t earlier today).

The plugin allows you to see the photos from Flickr. The flickr block was limited to the domains that host flickr photos (not the actual flickr domain), and so this allowed a way to circumvent the problem.

eoin
October 4, 2007
8:44 pm

Have you tried the link above? I cannot login to flickr using that or even any link on the flickr website

Ryan
October 5, 2007
1:41 pm

Hey Eoin, I can’t go to that site either and am not really sure what that site is. Not sure why you’re unable to log in. I’ve not noticed any problems with the login on Flickr’s main site when I log in.

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