Posted on 04/05/2016 2:04:36 AM PDT by Rusty0604
I am unable to access this website with Suddenlink, my WiFi provider. The only way I am accessing it now is on my tablet, I had to turn WiFi off and use AT&T. Anyone else being censored?
lol censorship. im sitting here in Dongguan China...works on wifi and my Chinese cell...if FR was going to ne censored it would be here
Check out this thread -— others have been having ptoblems too
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3417469/posts
OpenNIC Project will provide you with localized DNS servers that are not configured to track your lookups or keep logs.
OpenNICProject.org
FWIW, DNS is always free since it’s an IP-based system unless your provider is blocking by IP subnets or ranges like the Chinese government.
You guys... It is easy to be uncomfortable with things you don't understand, but if you break it down, there is no harm in Google, and if there was, the only thing you could do is unplug your computer. Cars KILL people, about 40,000 people a year, but you don't think twice about driving. Same principle with a network, there are accidents, but the good vastly outweighs the bad.
Now, so you think you can outwit Google? You can, but you should know that ANY server can and does collect data about you so as to make the net faster, safer, and cheaper. From the first server you connect to get on the net, all between that and your desired web page, sometimes as many as 20 or 30 at any one time, all can and do collect data. Not your name, but you location, time, length of time connected, pages viewed... But no personal data. It is all demographic and geographic data that is used any number of ways, all benign to you. And there are so many of you's, like grains of sand at the beach, that you are lost in the vast numbers. If someone does want to view your posting history, and can get a court order to do so, you are toast no matter what you do. So enjoy yourself, just don't think anything you do can insure your privacy if someone has a court order. And what are the chances of that for all us law-abiding FReepers, right!
Thanks for the tip on some more non-censoring alternative DNS servers!
Here is their “how-to” page:
https://www.opennicproject.org/configure-your-dns/
Google is evil. An alternative browser like FireFox, Palemoon etc, with NoScript, Ghostery, ADblocker plugins helps to keep the snoopers out.
Are you a bot? Seriously, your post reads like something from a bad bot script.
IT professional here, and I have decades of experience with networking, systems, data center engineering, and storage. I can tell you with 100% certainty that Google catalogs EVERYTHING. If you touch their DNS, they have your ingress and egress points. That means they know from where you came and to where you were going.
I'm sure you know that the Internet works by routing your requests across networks to reach an endpoint, but DNS only matters on your request attempt. The nature of DNS is that it converts your alphanumeric address to an IP address to route your traffic. If you use Google's DNS, they know exactly what you typed and will store it ad infinitum. If your traffic happens to have just crossed one of their networks, which it's likely to have done, they're only going to have the calling computer name (likely a router or switch) and the destination (also likely a router or a switch) unless, of course, your destination is Google or one of the systems in their sphere of influence.
I really don't care what you say or think you might know, based on your post, you're as snowed as any other sheep. If I can traverse the wide expanse of the Internet without doing business with Google, I am going to do everything in my power to do so. They are the definition of evil, and I prefer to have no business with them. And if you think that it requires a court order to view your Internet goings on, you're delusional. I've worked for an ISP, and I can tell you that they regularly hand over access logs with little more than a phone call from a local LEO.
Same problem with century link. Will call them and waste their time.
So sorry you read only javascript and have a problem with English, you are not alone... A LOT of so called professional IT people have a hard time playing in the sandbox with others. I was not writing for you, you seem to know it all; I was writing for the people that actually use computers to do work, not people that work on computers. We agree that Google, basically a server, catalogs a lot of information. Your contention at that they catalog everything, including personal information is baseless. Since you were a little snarky with me, I'll be a little snarky back - There is a reason you work with computers and networks and are not a senior manager, and that is you communicate poorly.
I have T Mobile and don’t understand a word of any of this!!
just know it doesn’t work.
Bolted the door when I got home just in case!!! :)
Maybe, lol.
well.... all stuff is tracked here on google in case you didn’t know....
view page source:
Google analytics code at bottom of every FR page.
But if you want an alternative dns... Comodo Secure DNS is working for FR as well right now:
https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/
Yes
I’m on my phone at home, accessing thru Wi-Fi. We have Time Warner Cable with TWC cable modem and our personal Netgear router.
First attempt to go to FR (icon = http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index) took me to Time Warner search page with the search term of the address above. Search results listed FR...so, clicked on that...brought me right here.
Closed the page, clicked on FR icon again...brought me directly to FR.
A vast left-wing conspiracy, I tell ya.
The same happened to me last night.
The IP address for FR is 209.157.64.200.
Seems no IP is registered within DNS at all right now.
My communication skills are not the point of this discussion, sir. And if you think Google is a server, I pray you’re not an IT manager. Google is much more than “a server.”
I also never made the case that they’re cataloging personal information, but they are cataloging ingress and egress points for network traversal. Since your personal IP address, at home or work or your phone, is ostensibly linked to your existence, they ARE cataloging your browsing habits. And whether those habits are for marketing purposes or forensic, they have that information on you and are going to have that information on you for the foreseeable future. This is not baseless conjecture, it’s documented, verifiable proof.
I never claimed to know it all, but when it comes to DNS, I have a particular interest considering decades of work in the industry and years of research with DNS, DNS replication, and Internet communications.
Those of you on Windows PC's and who have admin rights can fix this by going to the windows hosts file
look in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc for a file called "hosts" edit it to add the following line
209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com
save and close/restart your browser. You may have to close/restart a second time after logging in to FR, after that should be OK.
Would only link to some ad package last night but OK now.
FR isn’t “tracked” per se. The contents are copied to Google’s farm for caching purposes. So yes, while our posts are saved “forever,” the addresses from which we posted are not. That’s the point of DNS.
Google Analytics are called at the browser layer. If you’re not blocking Google analytics, you’re allowing the code in the page to act as a proxy for your browsing habits. I highly recommend you install a script blocking extension (e.g. NoScript) and prohibit Google (anything) at every level of your browser’s capability. They’re a virus, IMO.
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