PPRUNE blocked in the UAE

[dubaigong]

Dear posters ,

For a few weeks now , I am unable to access PPRUNE from my home in the UAE.
The access to the website is blocked by the UAE.
The only way for me to get access to it is to be on a layover outside of the UAE.
Am I the only one to face that problem ?

[gearlever]

No, you are not the only one....

pprune blocked (https://www.pprune.org/middle-east/612672-pprune-blocked-uae-now.html)

[ATC alert]

Some backward Arabs are still trying to control the World the way they see it!

[gearlever]

Some backward Arabs are still trying to control the World the way they see it!

One of them is just visiting Germany.

[aeropix]

Seems to be unblocked on Etisalat today 14th October. Maybe they gave up this failed plan and quietly "tore down the wall". I guess the coming days will see.

[Eric Janson]

Still blocked for me in the UAE.

Managed to find a work around with a simple browser add on for Firefox.

[aeropix]

It took a few days for everyone to get blocked. Maybe it will take some time before all services and providers have unblocked it? still working good on the 15th.

Hopefully we see some more discussions from now. It's been a bit quiet since the blockade.

[goeasy]

Still seems blocked to me on elife or 4G

[Arcla]

I was previously blocked ... Now its working again. Using DU.
Maybe they have reversed the decision?

[Black Pudding]

It's been a bit quiet since the blockade.

This made me chuckle. Which blockade, the one of prune or the one on not allowing Qatar registered aircraft overfly their airspace.

[donpizmeov]

You might need to get out a bit more black pud. Oh wait. You can't. :}

[Black Pudding]

You might need to get out a bit more black pud. Oh wait. You can't. :}

Free to travel wherever I want, whenever I want, and when I say want, Dubai and the other blockading places is not a places I want to visit.


http://dubaiofw.com/qatar-sympathizers-face-jail-time/

[donpizmeov]

Free to travel wherever I want, whenever I want, and when I say want, Dubai and the other blockading places is not a places I want to visit.


Qatar Sympathizers to Face Jail Time up to 15 Years, UAE Warns | Dubai OFW (http://dubaiofw.com/qatar-sympathizers-face-jail-time/)

Yet you still have some problem with the so called blockade . I am not sure many others really care about it .

[Black Pudding]

Yet you still have some problem with the so called blockade . I am not sure many others really care about it .

The problem we have is we are wasting money and time flying around your airspace that should be open for all to use.

[cerbus]

Still restricted. What are they hoping to accomplish by blocking my access?
I'll just read and post on layovers like I'm doing now and warn anyone and everyone not to come to Dubai. This is the treatment a new joiner can expect.

[Sorry Dog]

...I'll just read and post on layovers like I'm doing now and warn anyone and everyone not to come to Dubai....

Or you can use a VPN, or Tor browser, or several other available ways to work around it. Tor is probably the easiest for non-tech inclined types.15 minutes of googling should have you on your way.

[Emma Royds]

At the very most, it has proved to be nothing more than a minor inconvenience for those who can only access this website whilst out of the country but for many with the means to access this website in the UAE, nothing has really changed.

Discussion about EK continues unabated despite the draconian attempts by management to silence us, which have proved to be so ineffectual, it has resulted in those behind this initiative, now looking rather witless.

[GrahamO]

More worryingly, it’s also blocked outside of the UAE with third party network providers in Europe when subscribed to and using a du roaming package.


Its been like that for some time - all Du mobiles, when roaming overseas, route all their traffic back through the great firewall of the UAE and you are subject to UAE firewall rules even when overseas. I found I was unable to use the Qatar Airways website in Qatar when on an UAE mobile and got the UAE firewall blockage message and this resulted in my employer raising the subject direct with Du.

The Du response was a kind of s shrug and a statement that they follow TRA guidance.

I never established whether the routing of all traffic back via the home operator is normal carrier behaviour though. They certainly need to route the data usage back to Du but I'd contend there is no reason to route the actual traffic - but they certainly do.

[Emma Royds]

Can you imagine any of this nonsense happening in the western world or any other major airline?

We live in a part of the world where expressing criticism and exercising freedom of speech is rather taboo, unlike the civilised western world. ;)

[fatbus]

If pprune being blocked effects one decision to come to the ME or not, than I would strongly recommend not coming ! That is such a minor thing in the big scheme of things.

[GrahamO]

If pprune being blocked effects one decision to come to the ME or not, than I would strongly recommend not coming ! That is such a minor thing in the big scheme of things.
Indeed - its so easy to get around and if the individual is that sensitive, their head will explode within a few hours of when they arrive.

[ironbutt57]

you live in a place where you get arrested for being a rape VICTIM.....need anymore be said?

[jimjim1]

I never established whether the routing of all traffic back via the home operator is normal carrier behaviour though. They certainly need to route the data usage back to Du but I'd contend there is no reason to route the actual traffic - but they certainly do.

I suspect that all mobile providers everywhere will work this way. Of course if you use WiFi in another country this will not apply.

Europe is packed with free wifi services. Almost every restaurant, cafe, pub, and many shops have free WiFi. In a small place you often need to ask for the password. Larger places make you register online. Keep a spare email address handy for this sort of sh*te. I always try a completely fake address first. Just make it all up. [email protected]. Make a note of it cos you will need it again. PLEASE don't use anything that might be a real person cos you wont want someone to start getting your spam. Many free WiFi providers don't close the loop by sending you an email and simply accept what you put it.

In some countries such subterfuge might put you in legal peril. Take care.

You can check where your current IP address is registered (which may or may not be where it is really located - most likely correct but not always) with say -

https://www.iplocation.net/find-ip-address

This page displays my location as determined from four different registries. They all give the same country but give four different locations, some of them hundreds of miles apart. One of them looks as if it might correct (a small town nearish me) but the others will likely just be offices relating to the ISP and nothing to do with any actual network links.

Good luck.

[RoyHudd]

Dicktatorship. No freedom of speech. Next stop, no freedom of thought. Arab idiots.

[gearlever]

What about Saudi Arabia?
Also blocked?

[GrahamO]

Dicktatorship. No freedom of speech. Next stop, no freedom of thought. Arab idiots.

You obviously don't know what a dictatorship is.

People are much safer in the UAE than in Europe and America. The crime rate is lower with less violence.

Whats not to like about a pace where politeness and not being blind drunk in public are the norm ?

Next stop - not being like the west where its endemic crime, drugs and violence.

[DCBOE]

Just use a VPN

[falconeasydriver]

Passing through DXB airport as we speak, and on the free WiFi it’s certainly not blocked.

[Mr Mac]

Passing through DXB airport as we speak, and on the free WiFi it’s certainly not blocked.

I am also in DXB in EK Business lounge Terminal A . No problems reading or posting.
Regards
Mr Mac

[fatbus]

Maybe just Meydan and EGHQ blocked .