Comments on: Wikipedia SOPA Protest Easy Workaround

By: Scott Selikoff

Scott Selikoff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:17:10 +0000

I’m assuming if you can figure out how to get around the Wikipedia block, then you’re probably tech savy like me, and support defeating SOPA, ergo this embargo punishes us unfairly.

For the rest of world, though, life without Wikipedia is apparently a horrific experience worthy of multiple pages of writing: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/how-im-surviving-or-trying-to-without-wikipedia-at-my-fingertips/?hp

By: AB

AB — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:07:20 +0000

Thank you for sharing your insights.

It could be also useful to know, that blocker could be canceled by clicking ESC on the keyboard right after page start loading.

By: Scott Selikoff

Scott Selikoff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:28 +0000

@Radek

Actually, no they don’t. Not on the first two pages anyway. You have to click the “Learn more” and search through a large pile of text to find it. Not the kind of thing regular web surfers are going to easily find.

By: Radek

Radek — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:47:53 +0000

Hi,

They describe on their page somewhere, how you can disable the black screen (including disabling the javascript as you found out). Their aim was not to prevent people from using Wikipedia. Just to make sure everyone gets the message.

🙂