Nanny may not willingly take her meds, but nothing’s stopping the kids from slipping her a mickey. Regarding Nanny’s recent filtering of Flickr.com, Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and general manager of Flickr.com, offered some advice on a recent CNET News.com blog post. Enhancing the Firefox browser with a Greasemonkey plugin will automatically circumvent the filter. Another plugin for Firefox — appropriately named Access Flickr! — should also do the trick.
The Greasemonkey plugin is here. Greasemonkey will need to run a script to specific script to unblock the photos. That script is here. A good source for this and other Greasemonkey is here.
The Access Flickr! plugin is here.
Links and Sources
- CNET News.com: Tips on subverting China’s censorship of Flickr
- Danwei: Torture the net nanny voodoo doll
- Danwei: Flickr.com filtered in China
- Image Source: Access Flickr!