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Can forced re-directs on the net be avoided?
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Can forced re-directs on the net be avoided?
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Posted by Kevin Parent
(8 messages posted)
I'm a non-Korean living in Korea. A month or two ago, Yahoo started redirecting me
to yahoo.co.kr, and today www.youtube.com is redirecting me to kr.yahoo.com. There
is no 'Go to English Youtube' button. (At least yahoo does, but I stopped using them.)
I really, really hate this. Is there a way I can avoid such re-directs and go where
*I* want to go?
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re: Can forced re-directs on the net be avoided?
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Posted by Ari
(1280 messages posted)
They are sending you to the non-US versions of the sites because your IP address
reveals that you're outside the US. One solution would be to browse through a proxy
that *is* in the US, so that you appear to these sites to be in the US. Perhaps
you could persuade a friend in the US to run Ipig server software on their server
in the US, and then you would run Ipig client on your machine, and all your web
traffic would be relayed through your friend's IP address. www.iopus.com -- and
it's free. (You could even use Iopus' own public ipig server.)
Ipig is just one option - there are lots of US-based anonymizers and proxy servers
you could try.
On Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm, Kevin Parent wrote:
>I'm a non-Korean living in Korea. A month or two ago, Yahoo started redirecting
me
>to yahoo.co.kr, and today www.youtube.com is redirecting me to kr.yahoo.com. There
>is no 'Go to English Youtube' button. (At least yahoo does, but I stopped using
them.)
>
>I really, really hate this. Is there a way I can avoid such re-directs and go where
>*I* want to go?
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re: Can forced re-directs on the net be avoided?
Monday, May 19, 2008 at 3:02 am
Posted by normanw
(866 messages posted)
The same thing happens with Google.They assume ever user in
Hong Kog is Chinese. This can be fixed by saving your profile in
cookie but if the cookie gets erased during a cleanup, your are
forced back to the Chinese site and the need to re-configure
your user profile again. The surprising thing is, perhaps, that
Google recognises that Hong Kong is a Chinese city, albeit a very
cosmopolitan one. Most Americans seem to believe it is in Japan!
On Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm, Kevin Parent wrote:
>I'm a non-Korean living in Korea. A month or two ago, Yahoo started redirecting
me
>to yahoo.co.kr, and today www.youtube.com is redirecting me to kr.yahoo.com. There
>is no 'Go to English Youtube' button. (At least yahoo does, but I stopped using
them.)
>
>I really, really hate this. Is there a way I can avoid such re-directs and go where
>*I* want to go?
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