Get past ALL internet filters!

Hey everyone! Don't you hate it when your at work or at school and you have some free time so you go on the internet but it turns out that your email or Instructables is blocked? Well if you do then this instructable is for you.
And now for the usual boring disclaimer: I am not responsible for any of your actions from this knowledge.

Step 1 Materials

All you need is:
a computer with internet acess(duh)
a internet browser (another duh)
a blocked website (a final duh, or is it?)

Comments

[darklover]

he i need help the web filter thy r using at my school. is pretty hard to get past thy change there settings 3 each day so? who thinks thy r smart and good enogh to help me get past this one????

[demigodatlas]

What if all the proxy websites you go to are blocked?

[The Mattster]

What if freewebproxy.net is blocked?

[lockpick]

Then try www.open-browser.com

[TSC]

What if thats blocked??

[Kyky Rocks1]

Then add an s after http

[FuzzyStefan]

my friend "barowwed" some python code to make a hora-friken-awful bad proxy. www.chabubble.appspot.com. anyhow, could i do this, and acses bloked proxy through his proxy?

[MrCantThinkOfAName]

Another thing that i do sometimes is download TOR Browser on to a flashdrive and plug it right in. I've been using it for around two years and it hasn't been blocked once.

[MrCantThinkOfAName]

Oh, and make sure you have Firefox on that computer.

[IPWN4JC]

Working proxy:
http://team-xpc.com/proxy/

[KadenP]

A proper Internet filter is router based, not host based and uses a whitelist, not a blacklist.

This type of filter cares not whether you're using https or trying to use a tunnel.

[mrmath]

1) What's a "done", and why is it mine? Sorry. I can't help myself sometimes.

2) This will work for filters that work on site names, but I don't think it will work on content filters. I have a Dan's Guardian server setup at home, and it blocks on things like word count. Since this method returns the same website that would be blocked by word count, one would assume (never assume, you make and "ass" out of "u" and "me") that it would still block the website based on the same word count.

3) Numbered lists should always be at least three items long.

[Ian01]

Content filtering shouldn't be able to filter content if you use a secure (HTTPS) connection (if that's allowed).

[mrmath]

I just tried this with my filter at home. It wouldn't allow me to visit freeproxy.net. Said that it was filtered based on a exceeding weighted word limit for proxy.

[Ian01]

What's this word limit? Are you not allowed to go to pages with a certain number of words on them? That sounds like a very strange way to filter the web. And since the filter can still work on a secure connection, it must be on your computer, right? I'd thought it was somewhere else on the network (like the router).

[mrmath]

I don't think it can work over secured connection, but I haven't tested it. It's on a Ubuntu 10.10 server I have running in my house. I set the kids computer to use it as a proxy and lock down the settings. It does a bunch of different filtering, including black listing domains, websites, and ip addresses, as well as weighted words.

I do it more to protect them from unexpected stuff popping up than to stop them from going anywhere. There are one or two sites I've blocked to stop them, but they don't have any interest in it. If something gets blocked, and they want to see it, they send me an email, and I will usually make it so they can get to it right away.

[mrmath]

I do believe you are correct!

[mrmath]

DANG! It took out my tags. I put "Start pet peeve" and "End pet peeve" tagas around the question in the first point. It took them out. Now it's not funny!

[lemonie]

What do you do if the proxy site is blocked then?

L

[lockpick]

What do you mean?

[lemonie]

If the proxy site you point to is blocked, what do you do?

L

[ac1D]

forget about freeproxy.net, head here instead it's better:
Proxy org

[mdog93]

This is in no way fool proof. If the filter blocks proxies, it will not work.

[yoghurt-feen]

I agree, most filters block all public-known proxy-sites and even some filters block ips running tunnel services.