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. ;)

Abe Olandres

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.

https://www.yugatech.com

26 Comments

mr nice ash says:

18 years ago

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.
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dwek says:

18 years ago

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!
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[email protected] says:

18 years ago

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.
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leo says:

18 years ago

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.
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elmer says:

18 years ago

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

18 years ago

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
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carmela says:

18 years ago

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 myworldisana****@****.***. your response would be of great help.
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skiper says:

18 years ago

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)
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jhay says:

18 years ago

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

17 years ago

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
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mt says:

17 years ago

hahaha you are going to fail.
hahahahahaha!!!
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the real proxy says:

17 years ago

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!

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THE MAN says:

17 years ago

haha that one kid is gonna fail!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha suck it
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Proxy says:

17 years ago

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/
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bob says:

17 years ago

all these links are getting blocked
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The Real Proxy says:

17 years ago

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

17 years ago

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
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john says:

17 years ago

how do i get on myspace at school it want let me on help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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student slacker says:

17 years ago

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

WICKED fast and not blocked by my school
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My proxy sites are blocked by your school? Donâ€™t worryâ€¦ says:

17 years ago

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

Secure The Real Myspace PRoxy
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santana slacker says:

17 years ago

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

17 years ago

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

17 years ago

add ?microsoft
at the end of the address
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cassie sheeley says:

17 years ago

i need it unblocked my school is gay
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pissed off says:

16 years ago

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.
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miser says:

16 years ago

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