FB_init

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

By-passing Facebook's media link blockages


With the Online News Act in Canada, Facebook currently blocks links of certain media. Here is how to by-pass that.

Step 1: copy your original story link. This may be "https://www.marxist.com/down-with-hypocrisy-defend-gaza-imt-statement.htm" for example. 

Step 2: Go to https://www.base64encode.org/ . Paste the link there and click on "Encode". You will get text that looks like this:


aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyeGlzdC5jb20vZG93bi13aXRoLWh5cG9jcmlzeS1kZWZlbmQtZ2F6YS1pbXQtc3RhdGVtZW50Lmh0bQ==

Copy this text.


Step 3: Go to https://www.urlencoder.org/ . Paste the text from the previous step and click on "Encode". You will get text that looks like this:

aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyeGlzdC5jb20vZG93bi13aXRoLWh5cG9jcmlzeS1kZWZlbmQtZ2F6YS1pbXQtc3RhdGVtZW50Lmh0bQ%3D%3D

Copy this text.

Step 4: Append the copied text to the link


https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRxawN83bVcMq66GpfwxNb49WoPiFxNG7cUfat3kxhMpo?filename=vaivai.html&link= 

So you will have a long link like 

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRxawN83bVcMq66GpfwxNb49WoPiFxNG7cUfat3kxhMpo?filename=vaivai.html&link=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFyeGlzdC5jb20vZG93bi13aXRoLWh5cG9jcmlzeS1kZWZlbmQtZ2F6YS1pbXQtc3RhdGVtZW50Lmh0bQ%3D%3D 

This is the link that you can share. This link will take readers to the original link with what is called a "redirect". Try it! 

No comments: