Unblock Social Networking Sites
October 11, 2007 — aravinthMySpace blocked by your school? More and more schools and libraries are restricting, blocking and cracking down on access to online social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Xanga, and chat rooms. The purpose of the restrict or block access to file-sharing, instant messaging, social networking or email sites such as Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail or websites contain undesirable material, websites are vary, but none other than hoping youths will spend time in more productive way and helping to protect children and kids from online sexual predators. However, users can still access MySpace and other blocked sites via web proxy circumventor or bypass firewall, as most blocking are done by content filtering the site’s domain URL (e.g. www.myspace.com) or IP address on outgoing traffic packet.
There are a few ways to bypass the MySpace or block sites domain block filter and get the access to the site, depending on how system administrator configured the network routers or system to block and restrict access to MySpace.
Try alternative browser such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera
The easiest way to try if it’s possible bypass blocking of MySpace is to use an alternative web browser such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera. This hack will work if system administrators apply the contents URL filtering and blocking via Internet Explorer settings of Group Policy, which works only on Internet Explorer browsers. Thus, Firefox and Opera are not affected by the restrictions that applied via Group Policy and the access to MySpace or other blocked sites are granted.
Other bypassing MySpace blocking methods involve using a proxy or proxy server or anonymiser or Internet privacy tool or private web-surfing server, which has all the while popular in bypassing censorship and other content filtering and blocking by firewall or routers, while protecting the privacy of online browsing by eliminating the trace. When you’re using a proxy server, the computer establishes the connection to the proxy instead of destination website, and thus filtering or blocking firewall or router will only see the connection from and to proxy. The proxy server, anonymous or transparent, then connect to the destination website such as Myspace or Hotmail, Friendster, Hi5, etc and retrieve the requested page, which will then redirect and send the data back to you. The proxy can be used on various network services such as FTP, HTTPS, SOCKS and etc, but for anti blocking of MySpace, HTTP proxy service is good to fool the packet filtering device or blocking system.
Online Web-based Proxies (Anonymous Proxy Server)
Web-based proxy server allows user to just type in an URL (such as www.myspace.com) on a web page and all connections and traffic to and from the destination URL will be redirected via the proxy, making as it the traffic is originating from the proxy itself, thus circumventing the domain based URL filtering blocking system. The list of such web based proxy servers include:
http://www.atomicproxy.com/nph-proxy.pl
http://www.proxyvan.com
http://unblockmyspace.com/
http://www.unblockmyspace.org/
http://unblockmyspace.us/
http://www.fsurf.com/
http://www.blockfilter.com/
https://proxify.com/
https://proxify.us/
https://proxify.biz/
http://www.guardster.com/
http://www.ibypass.org/
http://www.ipzap.com/
http://kproxy.com/index.jsp
https://kproxy.com/index.jsp
http://www.attackcensorship.com/attack-censorship.html
http://mrnewguy.com/
http://www.unblockwebsites.com/
http://spysurfing.com/
https://www.the-cloak.com/anonymous-surfing-home.html
http://www.stupidcensorship.com/
http://www.evilsprouts.co.uk/defilter/
http://www.bypassbrowser.com/
http://www.onlineprotected.info/
http://www.proxymouse.com/
http://www.hidemyass.com/
http://www.mathcookbook.com/
http://www.fsurf.com/
http://www.3proxy.com/
http://www.browseatwork.com/
http://www.surfonym.com/
http://www.iamnewguy.com/
http://www.ninjaproxy.com/
http://www.anonymousindex.com/
http://www.proxy7.com/
http://www.vtunnel.com/
http://www.browsehide.com/nph-proxy.cgi
http://www.proxydom.com/
http://www.gostealthy.com/
http://www.thisproxy.com/
http://www.proxymy.com/
http://www.webunlocker.com/
http://www.ctunnel.com/
http://www.schoolmyspace.com/
http://www.kickadmin.com/
http://www.boxofprox.com/
http://www.proxymy.com/
http://www.proxyspin.com/
http://poxy.us.to/cgi/nph-proxy.cgi
Most of the web based proxy is free, although some has fee-based features that need to pay to gain access to those features. Some proxy has been blocked too, but keep trying for the one that works. By using the web proxy or anonymizer, MySpace users can browse the MySpace website, profiles, login to MySpace, posting comments and blogs and other activities. One thing of note is that there are PHP and CGI-based proxy, and to be able to login properly to MySpace or Gmail or other services, you may need to use CGI proxy.
Note: Sometimes, use the IP address of the proxy (i.e. http://188.77.77.88, can be retrieved by ping the URL from command prompt or ping from third-party websites such as DNSStuff) will work instead of using the domain name.
The list of web proxy and anonymiser is growing all the times, as more and more is been setup to take advantage of ads revenue and growing need of such proxy services to bypass the network restricted access to various sites. Feel free to add more in the comments.
