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How to get past school or office filters?

A number of readers have been telling me that they can’t access my blog from their office network. Sometimes, it’s not just my blog but a host of other sites as well like PEx, TipidPC, Youtube, Flickr, etc. Others tell me that their network scans all the domains each workstation visits and flags an alert if you visit certain domains too frequently (anybody familiar with WebSense?).

I’ve addressed some of these issues before by suggesting FeedBlitz and the Google Proxy hack.

Here are some more suggestions I can think of:

  • Subscribe to RSS-to-Email feeds. Feedburner has one. That’s also another reason why bloggers should go for full feeds instead of partial feeds. RSS-to-Email feeds are useless to your email subscribers if you only have partial feeds.
  • Use Startpages! Netvibes, PageFlakes, Protopage, etc.
  • Or go with online feed readers — Bloglines, Google Feedreader, My!Yahoo, MSN Live, etc.
  • Try some anonymous web surfing sites like The Cloak and Unblokr. These are the best tools you will need to surf all those filter or blocked sites from your network.

If you got some other ideas out there, do share them with the rest of us. ;)

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    27 Responses to “How to get past school or office filters?”


    1. Gravatar Icon mr nice ash replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 9:50 am (1)

      WebSense! That’s also one of my problems. It seems like WebSense can block an entire category/ies.

      This blog falls under Message Boards and Clubs category and all other sites that falls under it are blocked here.

      Though, I never know how it categorizes a site.

    2. Gravatar Icon dwek replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 10:27 am (2)

      Some useful sites that I need to access are all blocked! For example the filter detects lines of code in a programming tutorial page… BLOCKED!

    3. Gravatar Icon ericd001@hotmail.com replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 12:16 pm (3)

      i use google feedreader to read blogs. proxify or guardster for anonymous web surfing needs.

      blocked na kasi sa office ang multiply, friendster at youtube.

    4. Gravatar Icon leo replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pm (4)

      Well, I guess the very reason why most companies are using filters and blockers is simply because of employees internet abuse. I read somewhere that at least 30-40% of employee’s worktime are used on internet totally unrelated to the specified job and wasting company resources.

    5. Gravatar Icon elmer replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm (5)

      Try tunneling using SSH (if ssh port is not blocked)

    6. Gravatar Icon Dexter replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 4:54 pm (6)

      For me I use sheetr.com and 99s.net

      I have blog about it here

      http://techathand.blogspot.com/2007/06/another-tools-to-access-blocked-website.html

    7. Gravatar Icon carmela replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 5:02 pm (7)

      hi.. i am conducting a research about freedom of speech expressed through online journals and blogs. I would like to ask if blogging here in the philippines has an EFF counterpart. EFF is a non-profit organization in the US that defends freedom rights on the internet. So does our country has an organization like that? thank you. =) pls email me at myworldisanapple@yahoo.com. your response would be of great help.

    8. Gravatar Icon skiper replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 9:53 pm (8)

      I use Proxy sites, but most of the companies already block well known proxy sites, so better use newly created proxy sites and also use proxy site with unique domain name (without “proxy” on its name)

    9. Gravatar Icon jhay replied on Jun 20th, 2007 at 10:54 pm (9)

      I often use Google’s translate-a-page hack in order to view blocked sites in the school e-library. ;)

    10. Gravatar Icon Cloud replied on Jul 20th, 2007 at 7:08 am (10)

      all your proxy sites i tried taht you guys put dont work @ my school. All I want to do is send my project to my email and print it out @ my house. My school libaray is very expensive to print out. its 25 cents a page.. I don’t have any change on me please i need this project.. If i don’t turn it in i wont be able to pass n i would have to repeat the 9th grade :( please help thank you

    11. Gravatar Icon mt replied on Jul 25th, 2007 at 2:31 am (11)

      hahaha you are going to fail.
      hahahahahaha!!!

    12. Gravatar Icon the real proxy replied on Oct 1st, 2007 at 1:36 pm (12)

      hello i have this new proxy site you can use it , sky is the limit

      TheRealProxy.info, allow you to bypass restricted sites at work, school or college, including unblocking sites like MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and plenty more! The best thing is that we are free and simple to use, so check it out and tell your friends!

      http://therealproxy.info

    13. Gravatar Icon THE MAN replied on Oct 1st, 2007 at 11:27 pm (13)

      haha that one kid is gonna fail!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha suck it

    14. Gravatar Icon Proxy replied on Oct 8th, 2007 at 9:08 am (14)

      I love ebay’ing so when my work block access to ebay and paypal I used one of those web proxy pages to access my account. The same proxies kids use to access myspace from school.

      the one i used was:
      http://accessmyspacefromwork.com/

    15. Gravatar Icon bob replied on Oct 24th, 2007 at 7:45 pm (15)

      all these links are getting blocked

    16. Gravatar Icon The Real Proxy replied on Oct 24th, 2007 at 10:52 pm (16)

      here i found a new proxy above proxy sites are also blocked. im using this one ryt now : http://yesimfree.uni.cc

    17. Gravatar Icon Free Web Proxy replied on Nov 10th, 2007 at 2:29 am (17)

      No popups on this site and it’s fast and still not blocked!
      http://www.nocateegolf.info

      Also http://www.custom-logo-golf-balls.info is a great site as well

    18. Gravatar Icon john replied on Nov 14th, 2007 at 2:09 am (18)

      how do i get on myspace at school it want let me on help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    19. Gravatar Icon student slacker replied on Nov 17th, 2007 at 12:53 pm (19)

      http://www.torrnetfreak.com is a great free web proxy.

      WICKED fast and not blocked by my school

    20. Gravatar Icon My proxy sites are blocked by your school? Don’t worry… replied on Nov 17th, 2007 at 5:27 pm (20)

      if someone asking that there proxy site is blocked by there school this is my solution for that…

      Secure The Real Myspace PRoxy

    21. Gravatar Icon santana slacker replied on Dec 5th, 2007 at 2:53 am (21)

      PHproxy.com WORKS!!!!!! but sometimes it kicks u off the inter net

    22. Gravatar Icon student replied on Jan 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am (22)

      i use this website at school!
      no popups!
      get past the filters!
      http://www.zaag.info

    23. Gravatar Icon bradley replied on Apr 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm (23)

      add ?microsoft
      at the end of the address

    24. Gravatar Icon cassie sheeley replied on May 8th, 2008 at 11:31 pm (24)

      i need it unblocked my school is gay

    25. Gravatar Icon pissed off replied on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 pm (25)

      my school has blocked almost every frickin website that has to do with chatting with friends like netlog and facebook and myspace. the filters set to block anything that might let us get past them too.. i need some help.

    26. Gravatar Icon miser replied on May 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am (26)

      Best Solution to get around school & work firewalls – http://Go31.com

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