Wikipedia Blackout

Gillor

A bit late now I suppose, but for anyone inconvenienced by the Wikipedia 24 hour withdrawal of service you can bypass the blackout by using the Firefox browser with No Script.

Just set Wikipedia to "Untrusted" in No Script and you will be able to access the site as normal.

Also works for Google who have limited certain features of their site for 24 hours.

No excuse for not doing your homework now kids!

leemoss

Its also possible to use the mobile version of the site:
replace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki with http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

edit: and pressing escape while the page loading also disables the blackout (works in firefox, not sure about other browsers)

Gillor

leemoss wrote: »

..... and pressing escape while the page loading also disables the blackout (works in firefox, not sure about other browsers)

Works in IE8, Opera, Palemoon, and Chrome as well as Firefox.

googler

You can also bypass it by following the instructions on Wikipedia's blackout page

For anyone wondering WHY it's blacked out, it's in protest against draft laws in the US which will restrict Internet freedom.

Yolina

googler wrote: »

it's in protest against draft laws in the US which will restrict Internet freedom.

Indeed. I've just come across a "boycott SOPA" app on the Android market - scan an item's barcode and it tells you whether it's made or owned by a SOPA supporter, it looks like they are working on a new version which will include a "contact the company" presumably so that you can let them know that you're not buying their product and *why*.

Whilst there's nothing wrong with trying to stop piracy, the way they want to go about it seriously flawed :eek:

googles_2

i think it's only a 24 hours strike

Yolina

T'is indeed - sites that have "gone dark" are doing it so for 24h so should be back up at 8am ET (so 13:00 GMT) tomorrow. Even Amazon.com have put a box on their home page "reasons to oppose or modify SOPA"

Edit: there's a bit of fun on Twitter under #factswithoutwikipedia such as "Pluto is no longer a planet due to copyright claims from the Disney corporation"

jayme1

ha I was wondering why I am unaffected by this blackout but now I know, I use Firefox with No Script.

wikipedia isn't a site that requires any script to use (as websites should be) so I don't have it in the whitelist.

custardy

Gillor wrote: »

A bit late now I suppose, but for anyone inconvenienced by the Wikipedia 24 hour withdrawal of service you can bypass the blackout by using the Firefox browser with No Script.

Just set Wikipedia to "Untrusted" in No Script and you will be able to access the site as normal.

Also works for Google who have limited certain features of their site for 24 hours.

No excuse for not doing your homework now kids!

or hit escape as the page loads

ada1988

Yes,i found that,too,yesterday.
And it come back to narmal again.

Gillor

googler wrote: »

it's in protest against draft laws in the US which will restrict Internet freedom.

Final thought....seems a strange way of protesting against the restriction of internet freedom, by restricting internet freedom.