November 2, 2009
Quietube
Quietube is a bookmarklet “to watch web videos without the comments and crap.” An unintended use of the script, however, has been the creation of a proxy for heavily censored areas in the Middle East:
So it turns out, I think I accidentally created a YouTube proxy being used by tens of thousands of people in the Middle East. I’m not sure if I should be writing about it, but if it’s that easy to do, I’m sure others can do it too. It’s just a matter of embedding the video elsewhere, and it shows how extraordinarily flexible the digital systems we build are. Information does indeed want to be free.
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