How To Use MySpace If Your School Or Work Blocks Access
Many schools and other institutions have blocked access to MySpace because they
believe that MySpace is bad. Well, the Internet is a democracy and you have the
right to view any website you want. If your school or work has blocked MySpace,
don't worry because there are ways to easily get around it. To access MySpace
from a blocked location, try one of the following:
* Setup an SSH Tunnel.
* Use Google Translator.
* Use a Proxy. A proxy allows you to view a site without the network being
aware that you are viewing the site. There are many proxy services out there,
just do a google search for proxy to find them. I've had the best luck with the
following:
http://www.anonymizer.com/
http://www.hidemyass.com/
http://www.cecid.com/
http://www.thewebtunnel.com/
https://proxify.biz/
* Access MySpace through Google's cache. Go to google.com and do a search
for myspace.com. Google will show you a list with the first item being
myspace.com. Click on the link next to it that says "Show Google's cache of
myspace.com".
* Try a different site prefix. Instead of going to www.myspace.com, try
going to home.myspace.com.
* Try using circumventor, a program that gets around the site filter.
* Go to the hottest girl you know and ask her to find your network
administrator (they are usually lonely geeks). Tell her to flirt with him and
seduce him into removing the network restriction that is keeping you from
accessing MySpace. Ha!
MySpace Blocked? Unblock MySpace and Bypass with Proxy Access
MySpace 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? 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? 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?e 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:
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.
Web Accelerator
A web accelerator is a proxy server that reduces web site access times. Web
accelerator is actually very similar to web proxy, except that they have
additional functionality of speed up Internet connection and saving user
traffic.
http://www.webwarper.net/ww
http://webaccelerator.google.com/index.html (Download and install required)
Language Translation Tools
It? also possible to parse MySpace and other block websites thru language
translation tool and let these tool served you the translated page of MySpace,
hence duping network packet filtering and blocking system. However, the effect
won? be good, although most intelligent translator will know that the page is
already in English, and won? done any translation on it.
Mobile or PDA WAP-compatible Mobile Sites Translator/Converter
These sites or services are meant to translate or convert or reformat the normal
HTML web pages to WAP-compatible web pages for viewing on mobile phone or PDA
web browser. But you can still try to use it to access blocked contents,
provided you don? mind the distorted or garbled pages.
http://www.google.com/gwt/n
Open HTTP Proxy Server
This method to bypass MySpace blocking and access MySpace is not as easy as
above method, as it involves changing of network settings in the web browser in
order to activate the usage of HTTP proxy server when browse the Internet. First
of all, you need to get a working proxy server IP address, which is easily
searchable from Google search engine. There is a lot of open anonymous and
transparent proxy servers that are available for free usage. Then you need to
set up proxy server in your web browser.
For Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options, then click on
Connections tab. Select the LAN settings button. Under the Proxy server section,
click the ?se a proxy server for your LAN? and then key in the proxy server IP
address and port in the respective fields. Click OK when done.
For Mozilla Firefox, go to Tools -> Options, and click on Advanced. Under the
Network section, click on Settings button. Select the Manual proxy
configuration, then key in the proxy server IP address and port information at
the HTTP Proxy fields. If you want, you can optionally ?elect the Use this proxy
server for all protocols? Click OK when done.
Get Pass, Bypass, Disable or Remove RM SafetyNet Plus
RM SafetyNet Plus is the Internet filtering service and educational blocking and
filtering service that is popular in schools, libraries, LEAs, Councils and
Grids as a means of controlling Internet access. When you try to access blocked
contents or websites, or when try to download files with unallowed extension,
users will be denied access with warning pop-up messages.
To bypass and get passed the RM SafetyNet Internet content blocker, try to
RM-Passer.
Create Your Own Proxy Server at Home PC or Web Hosting Server
This is the difficult way to access MySpace, Bebo, Facebook or other block or
banned sites, and it? the most likely way to works to bypass the filtering and
blocking of firewall of network if the administrator has getting smart to block
access to proxy server sites too, as this private proxy server is set up by
yourself and known by you yourself only, unless you blow it away.
Once you get a web server, install a proxy on the website. There are a lot of
proxy server program available, such as PHPproxy and CGIproxy that can be
installed to set up a proxy server. You will need to install Apache and PHP or
CGI on your web server too to run as proxy. You may also want to setup a domain
name for your proxy for easy remembrance, or you can always use the IP address
to access it. If you?e using home based PC as proxy server, remember that IP
address may not be static, so you can use dynamic DNS service to set up a domain
name which will point to your correct dynamic IP address when changed, with
service such DynDNS and No-IP.
Note: Try not to use and remove all instances of the word "proxy" as it may be
"Blacklist" word by firewalls.
