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Has Face Book finally become a victim if Etisalats silly blocking rules?

Everyone I know in the UAE now seems to experience problems with the site, yet people in other countries report it as working fine.

What's going on.....?

FB addict

i just tried it, works fine for me, i'm currently not in a freezone and running through Etisalat with no 'work arounds'

word, im having the same problem.....its driving me nuts

Clear your cache and cookies of your browser.

Facebook sometimes update their cookie structure and this messes with the site if it reads the old cookie.

try the proxy surfer the one guy here has for his sig. works for me.

^ian^ wrote:Clear your cache and cookies of your browser.

Facebook sometimes update their cookie structure and this messes with the site if it reads the old cookie.

i tried that bro, didnt work

Chocoholic wrote:Has Face Book finally become a victim if Etisalats silly blocking rules?

Everyone I know in the UAE now seems to experience problems with the site, yet people in other countries report it as working fine.

What's going on.....?

FB addict

Choco darling,

I am not going to add you and please stop Poking me at facebook.
why do u visit my profile everyday?

I having problems too. I etisalat.

its still working, in a text only interface kind of way, you can still navigate, i dont think it is blocked. yet

Yep it is screwed.but i dont think its something etisalat has done.. They may b having some trouble with their hosting server.

now.. chocs can u please suggest some course/uni in the tv, movie production, entertainment fields..

yep it is screwed..
it's almost going to be screwed. . xxx
If you just observed what happened to the other community online site before it's been blocked. This is exactly as what is happenning now to facebook.

Almost same with Zorpia, hi5, and myspace.

In myspace, If you will checked the peeps in UAE all of their photos are X marked. Well, It's a diff case if you are in DMC, DIC, etc.
You can access averything on there.

Definately buggered. Bloody Etisalat! Leave us alone!

i hate etisalat, gonna give du a chance

Bleakus wrote:i hate etisalat, gonna give du a chance

How? Etisalat and Du have marked their own separate territories for ISP service. Like pimps.

gtmash wrote:

Bleakus wrote:i hate etisalat, gonna give du a chance

How? Etisalat and Du have marked their own separate territories for ISP service. Like pimps.

Apparently at the end of this year you will be able to choose.

Apparently.

My understanding is that DU will only be able to operate IT and Cable and landline services in Freezones therefore only competing with DIC.

i checked yesterday and they said that they are able to provide fixed line and internet for customers

gotta check it out

arniegang wrote:My understanding is that DU will only be able to operate IT and Cable and landline services in Freezones therefore only competing with DIC.

Du is already operating my landline m8, BTW facebook is fine with me

Sage

you are in a freezone ya numpty, so yes you can have DU or DIC.

Most of downtown/deira/mirdiff etc etc cannot have DU or DIC, well thats my understanding as i said.

arniegang wrote:Sage

you are in a freezone ya numpty, so yes you can have DU or DIC.

Most of downtown/deira/mirdiff etc etc cannot have DU or DIC, well thats my understanding as i said.

Downtown is all DU as are all Emmar developments

All Emaar Developments are Freezones as are Nakheel and Damac

But not all downtown is freezone

The offically named 'Downtown' is all freezone!

^ian^ wrote:

gtmash wrote:

Bleakus wrote:i hate etisalat, gonna give du a chance

How? Etisalat and Du have marked their own separate territories for ISP service. Like pimps.

Apparently at the end of this year you will be able to choose.

Apparently.

Hehe, like how etisalad promised per-second charging before du came online. And then a few weeks ago, in gulfnews, the etisalad boss says "we will do it if there is demand." Yes, we enjoy paying for the entire 30 seconds when we make 10 second calls.

I tried it from an Etisalat line today and it all functioned normally.

sage & onion wrote:I tried it from an Etisalat line today and it all functioned normally.

Yeah, it works now.