Subscribe by EmailHow to Visit Blocked Websites
August 30, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 11 comments
By Trey Crowe
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Studies abound on how much time people waste surfing the information super highway while they’re at work. Such misappropriation of company time can be as high as two hours a day on average. It’s no wonder why so many corporations block productivity sucking websites such as myspace, facebook, or youtube. Try to visit these sites on company time and you usually get a friendly little “access is denied” message.
Most people will simply give up and actually do some work, but what if I told you there was a way around the firewall and into myspace bliss? It’s no joke people, those friendly fellows from Google provide the answer.
Just use Google’s translation service and ask it to do an English to English translation. Simply add this into your browser’s address bar:
http://google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.blocked.com
Just substitute the www.blocked.com for your website of choice and get back to earning money while playing Tower Defense.
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Great information! Nice to see you posting here on [GAS], Trey! Best of luck!
Not working, I tried it on my system where gmail is blocked by our domain administrators, it threw me back to the default page telling that this site is blocked.
Well, usually it works, unless your admin has decided to block google’s translation service, or maybe your content filtering application is more sophisticated than most..
The biggest snag is a clever admin, that’s for sure. There is always a way around blocks, you just have to be persistent.
hello, i am a teen in high school, our school administrator is very smart, she finds out EVERY proxy we find, right now i ran out of options, my brother used to MAKE them, but he got caught, so…yeah, i was just wondering if you had a proxy to get around blocked sites?
I’m sys admin at a company that uses a web filering device that handels our filtering, this includes google’s translation service. Most decent admins know of this already.
For tricks an other similar work arounds that will make the IT department get mad cheak out the Wall Street Article:
What Your IT Department Doesn’t Want You to Know
By Vauhini Vara
From The Wall Street Journal Online
http://www.careerjournal.com/myc/officelife/20070731-vara.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&cjrss=frontpage
For instanse if you use an external proxy you can get around their block. Check out proxy.org for it but for more information check out the article it gives some details.
Bow144, how about proxy services like kwiq.net or qloy.com? How effective are they in getting around blocked sites?
They use PHPProxy and it seems pretty easy that any self-hosted blogger could install one and run it for himself. Of course, there’s plenty of proxies available! :-)
I have tried using your google by proxy and it appears that my admin at the school here has already found out about that and blocked it, any ideas how to get around a DoDDs blocked site?
it didn’t work.