How to access Flickr in Iran,China,UAE,Saudi Arabia and other banned Countries

Many countries have banned flickr, a popular photo-archive website. Are these types of ban legitimate? Many people from countries like Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China have shown their frustration toward this ban. One of the user from Iran complaints – “In my country unfortunately, flickr.com is banned. I’m a fan of that photo-archive website”. Can you still bypass the flickr filter to access the blocked website? Yes, you can!!

Hamed Saber has created a firefox addon ‘Access Flickr’ that bypasses the flickr.com filter in Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and other banned countries and places. Just install the extension and restart your firefox browser. There is no configuration, no menu, no icon. All needed configurations are done automatically!

Sami Ben Ghariba , Author of Global Voices Online interviewed Hamed Saber about this wonderful flickr filter. Below is an excerpt from the same-

 

SBG: Do you think that it is helping people (Iranian and others) getting access to flickr.com?

 

HS: Yes. It helps all Flickr members (and viewers) who want to access this great website in Iran, UAE, China and other regions in which this site is blocked there. Of course if they try to block this extension, they can do it, but then I’ll develop another bypassing way.

You can go through the full interview here.

If you are unable to bypass flickr filter then you can send your bug reports to this discussion thread managed by the developer himself.

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