It appears Etisalat have now decided to begin blocking Google cache.
Google cache takes a simple (no images are stored) copy of a website which is stored on Google and allows internet users to access websites which are experiencing downtime, have been deleted and/or changed. It also allowed UAE internet users to access websites which were proxied for text-only information.
First it was DeviantART, then it was Google cache; what next?
19 December, 2006
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Man this is funny... I guess the next step would be a walled garden approach, etisalat will start blocking everything IP address outside 217.164.0.0 - 217.164.44.255 but what they approve.
Hey Etisalat google images still works!
And A$$holes you forgot to block yahoo and msn (correction msn cache is blocked) cache :/
Man this is funny... I guess the next step would be a walled garden approach, etisalat will start blocking every IP address outside the 217.164.0.0 - 217.164.44.255 range.
Hey Etisalat google images still works!
And A$$holes you forgot to block yahoo and msn (correction msn cache is blocked) cache :/
anonymous: No links to goatse please.
I noticed this yesterday, I used it extensively to get really old stuff from message boards and expired webpages...but more importantly, for that instant shot of speed without the distracting ads and such. Luckily, only a certain IP range has been blocked.
When are they going to police The Bluetooth? And The SMS.....
Why not just stop allowing radio and TV broadcast, no more snail-mail, take everyones' landline phones, and oh, while they're at it, make it illegal for people to talk to one another and even use sign language.
Now that is progress.
I have feeling that TRA is taking initiatives on this regard rather than Etisalat.
Sam.. ain't this the same as blocking the Wayback Machine?
Most Email, SMS, and MMS in the UAE is already policed.
Yes - NEVER forget this. Etisalat keeps all SMS and MMS messages for at lesat 30 days, so anything you send they have. I have no clue what their email cacheing practices are, but given the way they sell their subscriber database to local spammers, I'll warrant it's not particularly respectful to user privacy of confidentiality.
Oh boy, now I can't access my last.fm profile. Though the main site is not blocked, I can't access this:
http://www.last.fm/user/doubleletter
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