Jul 25
2009Google Picasa Web Album Blocked in China
Filed Under: China Policies & Regulations, Google, Google Products, Internet Security, Living in China, Shanghai & China, Software & Tools
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Starting last week, Google’s Picasa Web Album has been blocked in China, adding to an already long list of websites blocked by the Great Firewall of China, including Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, WordPress.com, and YouTube.
Even though I can access all the blocked websites using Witopia’s personal VPN service, I use the Shashin plugin to display pictures and videos from my Picasa Web Album on my personal website. The “Random Photos” section on the sidebar, the Photo Gallery, as well as all the posts that contain albums and individual photos/videos are now broken for readers/viewers in China.
I was told that all these website will remain blocked until after the 60th anniversary of the National Day of the People’s Republic of China.
This sucks big time!
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This worked for me
Append below to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
203.208.33.100 lh1.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh2.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh3.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh4.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh5.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh6.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh7.ggpht.com
203.208.33.100 lh8.ggpht.com
Excellent, James! Bless you.
This solution worked for me! Thanks, James! Now if only there’s an easy fix for Twitter and Facebook!
The work-around is much appreciated but doesn’t solve the problem… ie., now we can see our own photos but they’re there to be shared. The block has rendered my own site – with years of work in terms of photography, PhotoShop, organising, uploading, place tagging and the like – effectively useless. Why oh WHY won’t the dullards in charge of all this nonsense realise that far from making people more compliant, they’re actually making them very, very angry indeed? I know many a Chinese, previously apolitical, now pig-sick of the government over the blocking of FaceBook alone. The psychological ineptitude is breathtaking.
Hi James Thank you so much for this..it worked for me… u r really great
now it seems that it not working(
Blocked forever!
Mourn over the death of Youtube and Picasa in China,5555
These are the new host entries you need to add
203.208.39.99 lh1.ggpht.com
203.208.39.99 lh2.ggpht.com
203.208.39.99 lh3.ggpht.com
203.208.39.99 lh4.ggpht.com
203.208.39.99 lh5.ggpht.com
203.208.39.99 lh6.ggpht.com
with those not only Picasa Web Albums but also Google Reader, Google Docs etc will work.
Till’s solution still works on 20101015.
Thanks!
Joe