Still blocked by China
Submitted by Anonymous on 14.05.2009, 10:34
I know Tor is more for anonymity than getting around blocking like the golden shield. But for a while Operator was great for getting around it. But lately I've been unable to watch many youtube videos with it. With a regular browser youtube pages won't load at all, either the operation times out or the document contains no data. But with operator it's a little different. The most common errors are the video simply never loads, youtube thinks I don't have the flash plugin or the page loads partially with all the elements on top of each other and spread out vertically much further than they should be like some kind of html error.

Still blocked by China
Sorry! I forgot to tell you that you need to use another browser with Java and Plugins enabled to view the YouTube videos – I have used Firefox and/or IE without any problems.
Still blocked by China
I think your problem may be related to not having Java or plugins enabled (to remain anonymous it's best NOT to enable them). I live in China and have no problem viewing YouTube videos using a free anonymous proxy server – I use “ProxyLord” (www.proxylord.com), but there are many others available.