Rumors about the imminent closure of VKontakte appeared in Krasnodar and quickly spread through specific circles. The story is this: elections to the State Duma took place and one beloved party did not like the way the “fair” elections were covered on social networks. On Channel One they tell one thing, but on VKontakte they honestly write about cases of arbitrariness.
- Experts have determined which is safer: VKontakte or Facebook.
- Scientists: IQ of VKontakte users is above average.
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- Who monitors VKontakte users and why.
- There are children under 2 years old on VKontakte. Why are they there?
Is it true that VKontakte will be closed?
Well, work has begun to suppress unnecessary activity. Under the pretext of fighting piracy, they will first close audio recordings, then they will take away videos, then they will begin to block groups and public pages under the pretext of fighting extremism and child suicide. By the fall of 2018, there will be little left of VK. The final closure of VKontakte should take place before the new presidential elections, that is, by 2024.
Experts reacted to the news with skepticism. The fact is that Pavel Durov, with whom the special services were unable to agree on the closure of opposition groups, left the company a long time ago and now VKontakte is controlled by a pro-government oligarch, so no problem with censorship will arise in VKontakte - everything will be blocked quickly and quietly. Secondly, there are many more VKontakte users than citizens going to the polls, and the closure of the social network could result in truly massive discontent.
Other probable reasons for closed access on VKontakte
The next option is less likely - an attempt to load a social network results in a 404 “No such page” error. If your computer is infected with viruses, you are prompted to go to a fake social network page.
Viruses are the main and common reason why it is impossible to visit your own page, which make changes to the system hosts . As a result, the address of the VK servers is replaced with a fake site and a message appears about spam or account hacking. To restore access to the page, you will be asked to send an SMS. You can read in detail in the article Doesn’t log into VKontakte.
To solve the problem of how to log in if “Access is denied” on VKontakte, an antivirus with updated databases must be installed on your PC or laptop. If an antivirus scan does not produce results, this does not mean that there are no viruses on the computer. Additionally, you can check your computer using utilities available on the network:
- free Dr.Web CureIt;
- free Kaspersky healing utility.
After downloading the first utility, you need to select a protection mode (enhanced, normal), run the program, wait for the scan and report. The program is designed specifically to eliminate malware and viruses, but it does not work as real-time protection.
It is important to remember that these utilities cannot protect your computer from numerous virus attacks. You should definitely install full-fledged antivirus software on any computer.
After eliminating the virus, you will not be able to immediately get to your personal page; you may be redirected to a fake resource. The virus writes unnecessary directives into the hosts . It can be found at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts .
Having launched hosts with notepad, you should make sure that there is nothing in it except the line 127.0.0.1 . It is important to scroll down the page, as scammers often indent the page so that the user does not notice anything at first glance.
If additional directives are found, you should safely remove them. The scammers' methods are almost the same for every social network. Therefore, regardless of which social network you prefer (Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki, VKontakte), it is important to immediately check the hosts file.
You can also return the contents of the hosts file to the default value using the official Microsoft support site and the proposed utility.
It is often very difficult to find the reason for blocking social networks. Sometimes it's easier to reinstall the entire operating system than to look for the cause. To do this, you may need the articles Installing Windows 7 or How to create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 7.
VKontakte “Access denied” - how to log in
- Check the availability of an Internet connection by checking access to other web resources.
- If there is a connection, you should try to access the site from different browsers (Opera, Google Chrome, etc.)
- If you don't have access, run a virus scan on your computer.
- Check the hosts file for modified directives.
All of the above information makes it possible to understand why there is no access to the VKontakte page. Using the recommendations, you can find out the reason for the lack of access and log into VK, even if it is blocked by a virus or closed by the system administrator.
My VKontakte was closed at work. What to do?
Blocking VKontakte at work is just the first sign. If it is beneficial for the head of your company to deprive you of access to VK, then can you imagine how beneficial it would be for the head of the entire country to deprive you of access to VKontakte? Sooner or later this will happen, but most likely by the 2024 elections.
But what to do if VK has already been turned off at work? The most obvious thing is to be on your phone. But if you want to do it from your work computer, then just connect a VPN. The service costs only $5 per month, but you can even find it for free.
Two ways to log into VK if the site is blocked - login through an anonymizer
An anonymizer site allows you to bypass system administrator restrictions and gain access to the necessary sites. One of such anonymizers is Cameleo.ru. Using this service is absolutely free.
After clicking the “Go” button, a window will open where you should enter your account information.
The Cameleo.ru service is over 6 years old and is one of the most reliable and proven.
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Be careful, VKontakte is closing
The panic with the closure of the social network was provoked by one of the users who posted a message that VKontakte would soon be closed due to numerous violations in the field of privacy policy. They say that the social network collects too much data on Russians. The provocateur insisted that the social network would be closed to everyone unless the user posted a post on his wall urging him not to close VK with the tags:
- #Bring back Durov
- #vk_live
- #VkWon'tBecome
Considering the low average IQ of social network users, this joke has been circulating on VK for quite some time.
Why won't March 6 become a “day of mourning”?
Since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the social network VKontakte about the imminent closure of the resource, and on the eve of publications with the same content, spammers posted at a rate of once a minute. In the test of the post, a specific closing date is named - March 6, 2017 - and the person in charge who made the official statement is German Klimenko, who, according to the authors of the message, is the press secretary of VK (in fact, Klimenko holds the position of Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Internet issues).
German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not the press secretary of the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed.
Note that even such a clumsy presentation of the message could cause a small surge of panic and increased attention to the news about the closure of the resource. At the same time, users of the social network were frightened by the fact that after VK is blocked, their personal information will be publicly available, and to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their wall.
German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not the press secretary of the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed. Photo rosbalt.ru
Secrets of VKontakte
A selection of interesting facts about your favorite social network:
- Did you know that there are about 100 ways to block VKontakte, but none of them gives a 100% guarantee? VKontakte is invincible!
- Every year it becomes more and more difficult to change the first and last name on VKontakte. Why do you think? The answer will surprise you.
- Did you know that VK runs on the Linux operating system? Only thanks to this, the social network pleases us with stable operation and high productivity. If VKontakte servers were on Windows, then the social network would have been polluted with viruses long ago and would have crashed every other day.
- Experts tried to hack VKontakte via Ubuntu.
- The most popular video for adults on VKontakte is a naked saleswoman dancing in a general store from Maria Evdokimova.
- My aunt’s VKontakte page was hacked. She describes the torment she had to go through before the stupid VK admins restored her access. Shock!
- What happens if you guess the password for someone else’s VKontakte page and log in? They will immediately solder 2 articles of the Criminal Code and give you a two-room coin. Real story.
- Why VKontakte cannot be trusted with personal information.
Why VK is changing its privacy policy
A huge number of ordinary Russian citizens went to prison for reposting, saving photos, liking, commenting and other prohibited dissent. At the moment, about a thousand more people have been put on trial, many of them barely 18 years old. People are imprisoned for reposting so often that the President of the Russian Federation proposed ending this practice of criminal punishment, and society is proposing an amnesty for those imprisoned for reposting. Most likely the laws will not be adopted.
What can’t you do to avoid getting a real criminal sentence for liking? Here's a short list:
1. You cannot criticize the authorities, including local ones. If you don’t know the line between “how you can criticize and how you can’t,” don’t criticize at all. Don't call for a change in government.
2. You cannot express negativity towards believers (insulting the feelings of believers), especially parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church and the church itself and its workers. Don't catch Pokemon in or around them. Pokemon or Minecraft doesn't matter.
3. Don't question state boundaries. If you like a post that says that Kaliningrad is a native German city and was German for 700 years in a row and not Russian, expect trouble.
4. Supporting the ideas of terrorism also leads to a criminal case. Liking or reposting a photo of a famous terrorist = a criminal case.
5. Supporting and sharing information about unauthorized rallies will most likely lead to detention.
It doesn’t matter if you write a prohibited comment yourself or like someone else’s, repost a prohibited meme, for the Law of the Russian Federation it is equally criminal.
Why are VKontakte pages blocked if you write “The owl never sleeps” on your wall?
Red Owl is another (also already covered in mothballs) game with death like the Blue Whale (no longer relevant). Heir apparent, to be precise. This expression is considered a chant of this “movement”. So VKontakte blocks his pages for “calling for suicide.”
The Krasnayasova hashtag is used to attract teenagers to groups and channels with suicidal content. This is a new wave of the so-called “blue whale”, which is called the “new way”. The creators of the groups ask teenagers to complete tasks, the latter involves suicide; if the teenager refuses, they threaten him with reprisals against his relatives. Social networks and instant messengers are fighting this phenomenon, which is why they block pages.
We answer the question that worries millions, whether they will be fined for logging into VKontakte via a VPN:
Is it true that pages on VKontakte are blocked if you write “The owl never sleeps” on your wall?
Personally, I have not tried this method of blocking a VK page, because my page is dear to me. I don't want to lose her at all. But there are many examples on the Internet where people share such experiences. It is not yet known how long pages on this popular social network will be blocked, perhaps forever.
And don’t even think about setting anyone up by telling some enemy to write the phrase “The owl never sleeps” on his wall. Many people even try to prank their friends in this way. But they themselves suffer, because even if you write on someone’s wall (if it is allowed by the privacy settings of that page), they will block the page of the person who wrote it, and nothing will happen to the owner of that page. And this inscription will be automatically erased.
Moreover, they say that they block pages even if you simply write this phrase in private messages.
