I’m on a Great Firewall kick this week. Here’s another unappetizing morsel:

Go to a blocked page, like VOA News or China Redux. Use a proxy to get around it. I use Tor, which gets around just about anything (including South Korea’s block of at least one North Korean website–can’t find the link now), but it drags down my speed to something resembling dial-up. Remember those old DSL commercials in the USA where people shouted “modem!” as a swear word? It’s that slow.

So I usually don’t leave Tor running any longer than I have to. As soon as the blocked page is loaded, I hit the Tor button (a handy Firefox add-on), and the web returns to reasonable speeds.

Here’s the problem: When I try to save a blocked page on del.icio.us, the bookmark window is likewise blocked. Tor gets around that, too, but I’m back to slow browsing. Del.icio.us tags work when using Anonymouse, but it grabs the whole url. And I just prefer the built-in Tor to the web-based Anonymouse, so it’s not much help.

Again, I don’t know if this is a local problem or something widespread. Anybody else running into this?

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