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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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

26 Responses

  1. Avatar for miser miser says:

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

  2. Avatar for pissed off pissed off says:

    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.

  3. Avatar for cassie sheeley cassie sheeley says:

    i need it unblocked my school is gay

  4. Avatar for bradley bradley says:

    add ?microsoft
    at the end of the address

  5. Avatar for student student says:

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

  6. Avatar for santana slacker santana slacker says:

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

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