With Idderall Block Sites

To block sites you don't like, you can install the Chrome extension TinyFilter as mentioned before.

The following will show you another similar extension — Idderall, which is available for you to block sites in a funny way on your Firefox browser.

After installation, you can follow the 6-step instructions to add blocked sites, to schedule the block time, and to choose an unblock way step by step.

Comparing to TinyFilter, Idderall has the following 3 obvious advantages:

I. 3 ways to unblock

If you need to get access to blocked sites or to change your settings, you will suffer from one of the following 3 deterrents:

1. Email

You can enter a friend's email address, then Idderall will send the unblock password to it.

2. Facebook

When connecting to your Facebook account, Idderall will post something that maybe embarrass you on your timeline.

3. PayPal

You can also set an amount of money you would like to donate to the extension author, and pay it via PayPal when you give up.

Among the above 3 deterrents, the first one will be harmless if you are using your own email address instead of your friend's, the second one will embarrass you mostly, and the third one will lost your money.

II. 2 ways to block

To block a website, you can add its domain to any group of the block list on the Settings page, or select the "Quick Block" option by clicking on the extension icon on the Add-on bar.

III. No way to give up without deterrent

When there is any active block, you can't disable the extension, even although you can remove it, the block settings will be still workable when you reinstall it during the scheduled time.

Bonus: How to hack Idderall

If you REALLY want to access a blocked site but not to suffer from deterrents, you can reinstall your Firefox, but remember to back up your bookmarks and extensions first, or you will lost everything stored on the browser.

How To Access Blocked Sites Via gogoCLIENT

IPv4 will be out of use soon, so we have IPv6 now, and which are used by Facebook, Google, Twitter and some other famous websites blocked in China.

If your broadband supports IPv6 access, then you can visit those IPv6 sites directly, if not, you can do that indirectly with some third-party tools, such as gogoCLIENT.

The following will show you how to access blocked sites via gogoCLIENT:

1. Register a gogo6 account

On the gogoCLIENT page, click on the "Sign Up" button, enter your email address or connect with Facebook, Google, Twitter or some other social network and create a gogo6 account.

2. Download gogoCLIENT

After registration, log in and open the gogoCLIENT page mentioned above again, then you can down the gogoCLIENT clients.

Up till now, gogoCLIENT supports 32 bit and 64 bit Windows systems with both Basic Version and Home Access Version (= basic version + home access).

Besides, gogoCLIENT also supports Linux/Unix/MacOS/BSD systems with source code, which need to be installed via the MAKE command, and you cancheck out the Guide (PDF) file for more details. The following will show you how to use the basic version on Windows.

3. Connect gogoCLIENT

After installation, run the gogoCLIENT Utility client, and click on the "Connect" button, if the connection is successful, then you can get access to the blocked sites with IPv6 addresses via any of the following 3 ways:

3.1 Via suffix

In the end of the domain of any IPv6 supported site, add the following suffix:

.sixxs.org

Take Twitter for example, you can visit its website via the following URL:

http://twitter.com.sixxs.org

3.2 Via PAC

Ago, you could open the network connection settings page, select the "Automatic proxy configuration URL" option, and enter the following URL:

http://gfw-proxy.co.cc/proxy.pac

Then you were able to access the blocked sites with IPv6 supported.

But now, the above PAC (Proxy auto-config) file is not workable any more, and I haven't found any alternatives yet.

3.3 Via Hosts

As mentioned before, you can unblock those blocked sites by adding their IPv4 addresses into the hosts file, now with gogoCLIENT, you can also add their IPv6 addresses.

On Windows, you can find the hosts file in the following address:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

On Max OS X, you can find and open the hosts file by entering the following command line on the Terminal application:

sudo vi /private/etc/hosts

After that, visit this ipv6-hosts (Chinese) page, copy the IPv6 addresses as well as their domains of Google, YouTube, Twitter and/or some other sites listed, and paste them into the hosts file, then you can unblocked those sites.

For those blocked sites which are not listed, you can find if they have any IPv6 addresses via the IPv6 Test web app.

How To Use Tor

As one of the most popular proxy softwares, Tor can be used on Windows, Mac, Linux/BSD/Unix, Android and Nokia Maemo/N900 systems, with multiple languages supported.

The following will show you how to use its basic and most popular 2 versions — Tor Browser Bundle and Vidalia Bundle on Windows and Mac.

1. Download Tor

On the Download page, you can choose to download the right version according to your computer systems.

For Tor Browser Bundle, you can and only can use its own browser (based on Firefox) to use its proxy service; and for Vidalia Bundle, you can use your Firefox, Chrome, Safari or some other browsers by setting their network proxies.

By the way, you can choose the Tor browser output language before downloading Tor Browser Bundle.

2. Run Tor

No matter which version you downloaded, you can extract or install the package and run the Tor service directly.

For Tor Browser Bundle, you can run the "Start Tor Browser" (for windows or "TorBrowser" (for Mac) file, and for Vidalia Bundle, you can run the "Vidalia" file.

If the onion icon turns green, then the Tor proxy is working.

3. Add bridges

If the onion icon doesn't turn green, then the current Tor network is blocked, and the easiest way to solve the problem is to open the Vidalia's "Network" settings page, to select "My ISP blocks connections to the Tor network", and to add some bridges.

So, how to get bridges for Tor? The following are 2 ways for your choice:

3.1 Via web

Visit the Bridges page, and enter the verification code, then you can get 2 bridges.

3.2 Via email

You can send an email with "get bridges" subject to "bridges@torproject.org" via your Gmail, soon you will get three newest bridges.

By the way, there used to be a "Find Bridges Now" button for to you get bridges directly, as mentioned before, but which is gone now.

4. Set browser network proxy

For Tor Browser Bundle, you can unblock the blocked site with its own browser directly, and for Vidalia Bundle, you need to change the SOCKS proxy to "127.0.0.1 : 9050".

Take Firefox for example, you can find the proxy settings page via the following path:

Preference –> Advanced –> Network –> Settings

And select "Manual proxy configuration" to enter "127.0.0.1" & "9050" on the SOCKS column. By the way, you'd better select SOCKS v4, since SOCKS v5 may be not workable.

Between Tor Browser Bundle and Vidalia Bundle, the first one is easier and more safe, but you can only use its own browser.

6 Ways To Use Snova Proxy

Among GAppProxy, Goagent, Hyk-proxy and Snova these 4 popular GAE proxies, Snova is the best, since it supports HTTPS well.Besides, it is also available for you to use in the following 6 different ways.

1. To use Snova directly

As default, Snova can automatically connect to some random GAE apps shared by others, so that you can just download the Snova client and run it.

2. To use Snova on your own GAE app

Instead to use others' apps, you can also create your own ones, and upload the Snova server to them to run the proxy service.

Again, none of the above 2 ways are available for you to visit HTTPS links, and to do so, you need install the C4 plugins on any of the following 4 PaaS platforms:

3. To use Snova on Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is available for you to run the Snova c4 plugin in an instance with 4-core CPU, 2 G disk, and 512M memory, no bandwidth limit.

4. To use Snova on Heroku

The network bandwidth limit of Heroku is 2TB/month.

5. To use Snova on OpenShift

OpenShift is available for you to create up to 3 apps, and each of which will run in an instance of 1GB disk and 512MB memory.

6. To use Snova on Jelastic

With Jelastic, you can choose to build your C4 plugin on Servint, Dogado, Rusonyx or some other hosted service provider, and deploy the c4 plugin on its website directly without entering any command lines.

For the C4 plugins, you need to use the "snova-c4-heroku-server-xxx.zip" file on Heroku, and use the "snova-c4-server-xxx.zip" file on the other 3 PaaS platforms.

By the way, besides to use Snova on GAE, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, OpenShift or Jelastic separately, you can also use on one, more or even all of them together, as well as to use multiple apps on each of them.