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    • CommentAuthorshaftyman1
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009
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    Hello folks,

    I cannot get Blogger to work in any Browser. I have tried switching off my firewall and also set up an account here but that didn't resolve the issue.

    Any help would be very much appreciated.

    Thank you
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009
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    Not sure what this is to do with OpenDNS, which is this forum about...

    What exactly do you do to reach blogger, and what exactly happens then?
    What happens, if you click the link https://www.blogger.com/start ? Is it better then?
    • CommentAuthorshaftyman1
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009
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    Thanks for getting back to me. It has nothing to do with OpenDNS you are right but seeing as how I am not sure what the hell OpenDNS is why I posted. All I know is using this site opened up a lot of blocked sites here in Turkey and I was hoping it would do the same with blogger.

    For your link I get a timeout connection in firefox and the normal link I get Connection Interupted, The document contains no data.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks in advance.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009
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    Ah, you are from Turkey?
    "Any thoughts?"
    Yes, you answered it yourself: "...a lot of blocked sites here in Turkey..." :cry:
    https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=blogger+blocked+in+Turkey :shocked:
    This is why Turkey is not and will not be a EU member - you know?
    This is not an attitude we would ever tolerate here in the EU.
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    Turkey has probably moved on to blocking sites by means other than simple DNS redirection. Changing DNS providers won't help in that case.
    • CommentAuthorshaftyman1
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009 edited
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    Actually I am from Scotland and live in Turkey. I have just returned from Scotland with my laptop and blogger didn't work there either, although it did on my mothers computer.

    It was working alight here before I left but now it is not. Its all very confusing. lol
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009
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    Apparently they did a good job. There is no information about circumvention methods around for this. So you are out of luck for the time being. You may go to your Turkish ISP there and request to get you access to Blogger, as you were not a Turkish citizen, but a EU citizen, and you had the right, yes, the RIGHT, to access such sites, and they did NOT have the right to prevent you from accessing them...
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    When Blogger doesn't work in Scotland after your computer has been in Turkey, some things to try are:
    - Delete cookies
    - Delete browser cache (temp internet files)
    - Flush the local resolver cache (ipconfig /flushdns at the Windows command prompt)

    You may have to go look in the actual browser cache and cookies folders, as there are sometimes tenacious files which do not delete when clearing these by normal methods.

    You might try some proxy software or service as well when in Turkey.
    Some info here http://www.internetfreedom.org/
    Not all network restrictions can be gotten around, though.
    • CommentAuthorshaftyman1
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2009 edited
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    Well, that explains it then. Bummer. I couldn't watch YouTube either until I joined this site. Majorly frustrating and really rather pathetic.

    Still, thanks for your help anyway.

    Oh, just noticed some comments from maintenence. Thanks for that I will try it out and let you know how it goes.

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