Has Your School Or Employer Blocked Ghafla? This Is How You Can Still View Your Favourite Site Regardless!

From some reports we received a year so ago, certain institutions of higher education had blocked. And then the trend spread. Next, media houses begun blocking us in the bid to enter the haters bandwagon.

 

 

 

 

It one huge hate-fest with CEOs and Deans calling me up like:

And now it would seem that there is a solution for all you long suffering Gh! readers. All you who were denied the opportunity to enjoy the only entertainment site in Kenya worth reading. Oh, so you disagree? Go on then, name any of our rivals. Don’t worry, I’ll wait…

 

Anyway, this is how to bypass the pesky ban on Ghafla:

 

Sites other users are unblocking:

Alternative unblocking methods

Our in-browser proxy technology is truly the most advanced of its kind, however there are inherent limits to what it can do. If you are unable to acccess ghafla.co.ke using our unblocker above here are some alternative tricks you can try. Please note however that the methods below require that you have administrative privileges on your computer. If you are in a restricted environment you likely won’t be able to follow them.

Method 1: Access directly by IP address (using hosts file)

On the Internet computers communicate with each other using numerical identifiers called IP addresses. Before your computer can talk to ghafla.co.ke server it needs to obtain ghafla.co.ke’s IP address. A great deal of website blockers work by interfering with this process and misleading your computer about what ghafla.co.ke’s IP address is.

To bypass this type of blocking you can configure your computer to always use a predefined IP address when accessing ghafla.co.ke. In order to do that, you need to edit the so called hosts file. On Windows it’s “C:WINDOWSSystem32driversetchosts“. On Mac OS X it’s “/etc/hosts“. Open this file with a text editor (Notepad on Windows, TextEdit on Mac OS X) and append the following lines to it:

 

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