How to Unblock Websites
What is a blocked website? Schools, colleges, unversities, business and public companies often block access to varios websites for different reasons.
Most often the reason would be that the access to a particular website consumes too much bandwidth or that students or employees spend too much time on that website instead of working or studying. Some countries, such as Iran, Georgia, China, and etc. block access to sites that might post news about their contries that the government does not want the people to know.
So, websites are being frequently blocked. Fortunately, there are several very simple ways to unblock them.
- The first approack would be to use a free web based proxy site to unblock a blocked website. A web based proxy site acts like a mediator on the user's behalf. You access the web proxy, and the web proxy accesses the sites you want to unblock. As a result, shools, colleges, public and private corporations, and governments lose control of what can and cannot be accessed. Since you access only a proxy site, they do not know the real website you are viewing.
Unfortunately, web based proxy sites are frequently blocked themselves. So, you need a list of fresh and not yet blocked proxies that you can use to unblock the websites. An example of such a list can be found here. - Another simple approach to access a blocked web site is to use the IP address of the website instead of the URL in the address bar of the browser. Although, you would still be unable to access a blocked website if the web filter filters both names and IP addresses of the blocked websites.
- Use a URL redirection service like LLFK.com. Services like LLFK.com sometimes work in such a way that the address in the the url box of the browser is shown as the address of the redirect url and not of the banned site.
- You can use the Google Mobile Search. This Google's service displays the HTML pages as if the are viewed on a mobile phone. When Google translates the pages, the longer pages are broken into smaller parts, JavaScript is removed, CSS formatting is also removed. You can try viewing this page in Google Mobile Search Service
- Another approach would be to use Google or Yahoo search engines to find the cached versions of the blocked pages. To speed up the retrieval of the cached page Google or Yahoo cache you can choose to view the "Cached Text Only" while using Google or Yahoo.
- Google translation service can be used to access the blocked websites. Google translation tool acts as a proxy server thus allowing you to access websites that were blocked. Of cours, this would work only if Google was not blocked itself. View this page in Google Translation.
- Another nice trick is to use Windows Calculator. Open calculator (Start->Programs->Accessories), click Help->Help Topics, then click on the calculator icon in the title bar and chose "Jump to URL". Now enter the URL of the website you would like to access in the provided fild and click the "OK" button.
- Use the IP instead of the URL to access the website. If the website is blocked then you would probably not be able to use the command prompt PING utility to get an IP address for a website URL. So, you would need to use a Network Query Tool to get a website's IP address. Once you have the IP address, use it instead of URL to access a website: http://IP.
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