Firefox Users: Easily bypass the ban on Blogspot in Pakistan
This is my first greasemonkey script written for Firefox! I call it, "Blogspot to PkBlogs Link Rewriter"
Rationale:
Blogspot domain has been banned in Pakistan, but one enterprising person, Yasir Memon, came up with this brilliant idea of getting past the ban. PkBlogs.com. Its a script which basically strips the blogspot.com domain name and delivers the page to you through a server in the US, effectively bypassing the ban.
Now the problem was, i had to manually translate every link (other than those which are now published using the pkblogs.com service), and it got tiresome. So i wrote this little script, which will automatically perform the translation for you.
You do need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox (version 0.6.4) to run this script. (Available for download from here).
Installation Procedure:
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Rationale:
Blogspot domain has been banned in Pakistan, but one enterprising person, Yasir Memon, came up with this brilliant idea of getting past the ban. PkBlogs.com. Its a script which basically strips the blogspot.com domain name and delivers the page to you through a server in the US, effectively bypassing the ban.
Now the problem was, i had to manually translate every link (other than those which are now published using the pkblogs.com service), and it got tiresome. So i wrote this little script, which will automatically perform the translation for you.
You do need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox (version 0.6.4) to run this script. (Available for download from here).
Installation Procedure:
- Install Greasemonkey or make sure it is installed.
- Open this link in firefox.
(or copy/paste this link in your browser http://www.geocities.com/mansoor_adenwala/blogspot2pkblogs.user.js)
- Click on Tools -> Install this Script
- Thats it! Now *any* page on the web, which links to a blogspot blog, will be automatically translated.
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