How to Access Blocked Websites?

Blocking access to undesirable Web sites through the use of Internet
protocol filters has been a common government tactic since commercial
Internet access first became available here in 1995. China and Saudi
Arabia are believed to extend greater censorship over the net than any
other country in the world under the pretext of information control.

Most of the blacklisted sites in Saudi Arabia are either sexually
explicit or about religion, women, health, drugs and pop culture. They
even block access to websites about bathing suits. So if you want to buy
something to swim in, they seem to treat that as if it were pornographic
in Saudi Arabia.

In China, webites containing sexually explicit content were among those
blocked, but they also included sites on sensitive topics such as Tibet,
Taiwan, and dissident activity. China also blocks access to Google News,
Typepad and Blogger hosted blogs.

But what if an innocent website is accidentally blocked by your ISP or
your government. There are always legitimate reasons to visit these
blocked websites. We have listed a few methods to help you access
blocked websites in school, college, office or at home.

Approach 1: There are websites Anonymizer who fetch the blocked site/
page from their servers and display it to you. As far as the service
provider is concerned you are viewing a page from Anonymizer and not the
blocked site.

Approach 2: To access the blocked Web site. type the IP number instead
of the URL in the address bar. But if the ISP software maps the IP
address to the web server (reverse DNS lookup), the website will remain
blocked.

Approach 3: Use a URL redirection service like tinyurl.com or
snipurl.com. These domain forward services sometimes work as the address
in the the url box remain the redirect url and do not change to the
banned site.

Approach 4: Use Google Mobile Search. Google display the normal HTML
pages as if you are viewing them on a mobile phone. During the
translation, Google removes the javascript content and CSS scripts and
breaks a longer page into several smaller pages. [link] View this
website in Google Mobile

Approach 5: Enter the URL in Google or Yahoo search and then visit the
cached copy of the page. To retrieve the page more quickly from Google's
cache, click "Cached Text Only" while the browser is loading the page
from cache.

Approach 6: A recent Oreilly story on accessing blocked websites
suggested an approach to access restricted web sites using Google
language tools service as a proxy server. Basically, you have Google
translate your page from English to English (or whatever language you
like). Assuming that Google isn't blacklisted in your country or
school, you should be able to access any site with this method. Visit
this site via Google Proxy

Approach 7: Anonymous Surfing Surf the internet via a proxy server. A
proxy server (or proxies) is a normal computer that hides the identity
of computers on its network from the Internet. Which means that only the
address of the proxy server is visible to the world and not of those
computers that are using it to browse the Internet. Just visit the proxy
server website with your Web browser and enter a URL (website address)
in the form provided.

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