How To Access Blocked Sites Via Proxy

Your boss at work might have restricted you from visiting certain sites like facebook, youtube, twitter and so on just thinking they are distractions. It might even be your school has a very fast WLAN but the network administrator makes it impossible to watch music videos on youtube or hang out with your peeps on facebook. Crazy, huh? Are you even aware some governments restrict their citizens from visiting certain sites? ( I've heard about China, Saudi Arabia and there's word around that you can't access some sites in Malaysia too). There are even some websites that block visitors from certain countries from accessing their contents but whatever the case may be, there's a way out and after reading this post, you'll definitely have access to all those blocked websites. I'm not sure there's a site that can block me from accessing them even if they don't allow visitors from Nigeria, and I'm not sure I'll be bothered if my network operator blacklists some sites cuz I'll still forge a way through anyway.


There are different ways to bypass censorship but they all do the same thing: your computer sends data to the proxy server, the proxy server sends your request to the site you want to visit, the site sends the reply which the proxy server gets and displays to you. You get to visit the site and it's gonna look like you're just visiting that proxy server, that's the basic principle.

1. Using Anonymous Proxies

This is the easiest way to bypass any form of censorship and access blocked sites. You only need to get a working anonymous proxy with it's port and input it into your browser. Getting a working anonymous proxy is the first thing and you can get lots of them from hidemyass.com. They've been around for some time now and their proxy list is always updated so you won't be left with just a bunch of dead proxy servers. You should select anyone that supports HTTPS so you will be able to access secure sites (https://). Just key in the IP and port into your browser and you're good to go.

Changing Proxy Settings For Firefox

-Go to Tools, then Options.
-Click on Advanced tab.
-Select "Network" tab.
-Click "Settings" button in the "Connections" area.
-Select the Manual Proxy Configuration radio button.
-In the necessary proxy field(s), set HTTP Proxy (proxy IP) and proxy configuration Port.
-Check use this proxy server for all protocols.
-Click OK.

Changing Proxy Settings For Google Chrome

-Click on the spanner toolbar icon
-Select Options
-Click on Under The Hood tab
-Click on Change Proxy Settings button
-If you are using LAN, click "LAN Settings" button. If you are using Dial-up or Virtual Private Network connection, select necessary connection and click "Settings" button.
-Make sure the "automatically detect proxy settings" and "use a proxy automatic configuration script" options are not checked.
-In the "Proxy Server" area, click the check box next to Use a proxy server for this connection.
-If necessary, enable "bypass proxy server for local addresses".
-Click the "Advanced" button and set Proxy Server address (proxy IP), proxy server port.
-Click OK.

For Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera and other browsers, there's a post I made sometimes in 2009 on how to change their proxy settings and I suggest you check it out.

2. Using Proxy Sites/Proxy Servers (PHP, CGI, GLYPE)

This is another way to access blocked sites and it even looks easier than the one above. You don't need to tamper with your broser proxy settings or download any software, you just need to find a proxy site or build your own. Yes, you heard me right! You can either build your own PHP proxy server or create your personal CGI proxy server. In case you think that's some geekie stuff that's gonna be too hard, you can take the easy way out and find proxy sites to use. I have a page on this site with some CGI proxy servers you can use. You to can run a google search for free php proxy server or visit phpproxies.com or phpMyProxy for fast access to those blocked sites.

How to use them? Simple! Just enter your destination address in the url box and you're there!

3. Using Anonymity Softwares

Anonymizers or anonymity software are programd that basically make you anonymous or in other words, change your IP address. This softwares are numerous but a great deal of them are for sale. There are some that are free though and I made some posts on them in the past. You can check the archive or view all my posts tagged ANONIMIZERS to see what I'm talking about.

There's a host of them but the most crazy of them all is Tor. Tor changes your IP address almost every two minutes or so but If you need one with a stable IP address, I recommend Your Freedom, Gpass, Ultrasurf and Freegate.

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Free Browsing Settings On MTN Nigeria With Your Freedom

(Updated on 21st September, 2011)
If you're new to your-freedom software, there's an old post I wrote on it's basic configuration but you actually don't need it if you're quite used to this firewall bypassing software and all previously used tricks. You should first create an account as a free user at your-freedom.net to to use this tunneling application. As at the time of writing this post (25th Aug., 2011) , Your Freedom client software works free on MTN Nigeria. For years, your-freedom has been working on Nigerian networks including MTN, Glo, Etisalat and Airtel since the settings is quite flexible and the software developers are constantly updating the software and maintaining their different servers located in different countries making it easy to hide your IP address and break firewall as well.


After creating your free account and verifying your email address, configure the software as follows to work free on MTN:

1. Install the software, select your desired language (English) and cancel the welcome message

2. Click on Configure and key in the following settings on the page that pops up:

* Address - www.mtnfootball.com
* Port - 80
* Connection Mode - HTTP
or POST (POST works better at times)
* Tweak - None

Under options, check the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th box.

* Minimum Buffer Size - 1500
* Reconnection Delay - 5000
* Initial Post SIze - 10000000
* Minimum POST Size - 20000

3. Click on Account Information tab and enter your username and password.

4. Click on Proxy Settings tab and key in the following settings:

* Proxy Address - ems01.your-freedom.de
* Port - 80

5. Click Save and Exit.This should take you back to the main window

6. Now click on Ports tab and check Socks 4/5 and Web Proxy

7. Now select the Status tab and click on Start Connection

If every thing is set right and the network is ok, you should get connected as the door icon pushes open.

Now launch Mozilla Firefox or any browser of your choice and change the proxy settings to 127.0.0.1:8080 or localhost:8080 . For Firefox:

* Click on Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Settings.
* Select Manual Proxy Configuration
* Enter 127.0.0.1 for HTTP Proxy
* Key in 8080 for Port
* Check Use this proxy server for all protocols
* Click OK and save your settings

If you're looking for how to change proxy settings for other browsers, you can check this post. Though Your Freedom software might be connected, you still won't be able to surf the internet if your browser proxy settings is wrong.

Like I said earlier, this settings works at the time this blog post was published. In case it got blocked or you still need help configuring the software, there are members at our web forum always ready to help you for free.

LIMITATIONS

Though Your Freedom is released as a freeware, there are certain limitations as a free user. Your maximum connection time is limited to sixty minutes. This means you will be disconnected from your-freedom server after every 60 minutes and there's no known way to bypass this annoying limit. Your maximum daily connection time is also limited to 6 hours. You're allowed a total connection time of 15 hours per week as a free user and this is definitely not enough especially if you use the internet a lot. You can view this page to view all the limitations and upgrade your account if you really want to.

Anyway, enjoy this free brosing trick with Your-Freedom on MTN Nigeria while it lasts!

LATEST UPDATE - 9th Aug., 2011
As at 09-09-2011, MTN blocked www.mtnfootball used to power this free browsing trick. The new settings remain the same with just a little variation. Change www.mtnfootball.com in the settings above to 41.220.77.210 and your freedom is up and running again.

LATEST UPDATE - 21st September 2011

Your freedom stopped working on MTN Network a few days back but it's now back. Reverse IP trick is no longer working but you can still connect using SSL (secure connection), also known as HTTPS. The settings below should work for you:

Download this version 20110920-02 and configure as follows:

* Address - 81.169.178.188
* Port - 443
* Connection Mode - HTTPS
* Tweak - Nigeria MTN

Proxy settings should be left blank as you won't be needing any IP address or port.
Save your settings and click on Start Connection.

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Free PHP Proxy Sites [May 2011]

Below are free php proxy sites you can use to unblock facebook, youtube, myspace and other sites blocked by your school, network operator or employyer. They were all tested to be working as at the time of posting them.

http://smile.proxyssl.info [Czech]

http://pro.all.lc/ [Germany]

http://www.proxyforplay.com [US]

http://yourownproxy.cz.cc [UK]

http://www.0proxy.info [Germany]

http://yourownproxy.com [US]

http://www.zmienip.pl [France]

http://www.bypass.mw {US}

http://www.howtounblock.org [US]

http://www.privatehide.info [US]

http://changemyip.cz.cc [UK]

http://www.davidbm.com [Singapore]

http://www.proox.tk [Cyprus]

http://www.proxsite.us [US]

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How To Create A Free PHP Proxy Site

If you read my previous tutorial on how to create your personal CGI proxy, you might want to have a PHP proxy too, so I decided to post this tutorial on how to create a free and reliable PHP proxy server. Free proxy servers are all over the internet but they are generally unreliable, so getting your own free PHP proxy server isn't such a bad idea especially if you have been restricted from visiting certain sites.

With your own PHP proxy, you can unblock sites blocked by your school, employer, ISP or government. It's easier bypassing internet restrictions and firewall with your own proxy site and there is also the added advantage of securing your internet privacy. Nobody gets to know what you're up to online as you will always appear to be only visiting that proxy site.
Are you restricted from facebook, myspace, youtube and the rest of those sites you love to visit? Or are you just concerned about your online privacy? Then follow this guide and your proxy site will be up and running within one hour.

The following is required:

1. A hosting account: This can be a free or paid hosting account.
i. This hosting account must have PHP Compiler. This produces optimized stand alone applications, libraries, and Web applications from standard PHP source code. Almost all free web hosts has this so I don't think it's gonna be a problem. PHP scripts runs on almost all free web hosts

ii. The hosting account too must have safe mode turned off in it's php.ini configuration file.

safe_mode = Off
allow_url_fopen = On

This allows your web proxy server to connect to other servers since this is exactly what you want it for. You can check out these free hosts or run a google search.

-30mb.co.uk
-x10hosting.com
-mobi.ps

2. A domain name or sub-domain: Some free hosts offer a sub-domain along with every free hosting account while some expect you to already have a domain name.

You can get a totally free domain name for your proxy server from these sites:

-www.dot.tk
-nic.cz.cc
-www.co.cc
-registry.cx.cc
-freedomain.ce.ms

3. The PHP proxy script: You can download the latest PHProxy version from the link below:



Now I believe you have a free hosting account with a domain name, right? It's almost complete...unzip the contents in the file you downloaded earlier.
Now login to your hosting cpanel and upload to your domain root (www folder) or create a folder in your domain root.

-index.php
-style.css
-javascript.js
-PHProxy.class.php

That's all you have to do and your free PHP proxy server is set up. Launch the address in which you upload the files and your PHP proxy server site loads. Enter your destination url in the box and you're good to go. Any problem? Leave a comment!

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Surf Anonymous Free 2.0.6.6

Keeping your internet connection encrypted and anonymous might not always be something you have to pay for. There are certain programs design to protect your online privacy by tunnelling your connection via dedicated servers but some of these softwares are quite expensive sometimes and the service might not even worth the pay sometimes.

As the name describes, Surf Anonymous Free is a freeware that hides your real IP address and gives you a reasonable degree of online security and privacy. With a different IP address, it would be quite hard to be traced
This makes it almost impossible for sniffers and identity stealers to get your personal details. It also helps you bypass firewalls and restriction to certain sites which your service provider, school authority or employers might place on your local area network.
Features Include:

Keeping Your Internet Activities Safe and Private
Via our anonymous proxy servers, you are hardly traced or monitored by hackers when browsing websites. Therefore, all your online activities can be protected against others' prying.


Helping You Browse Web Anonymously
Surf Anonymous Free ensures you to send anonymous email or post on bulletin boards without displaying your real IP address.


Guarding Your Wireless Connection
Via Surf Anonymous Free, your wireless Internet surfing is protected by establishing a secure tunnel, which could encrypt all your browser traffic so it can not be intercepted and read.

Protecting You From Cybercrime
No trail of activity can be used to track back to your computer by cybercriminals since you are spoofing with a fake IP address. From now on, you are totally free of identity theft, credit card fraud and other crimes.


Excellent Compatibility
Surf Anonymous Free supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, Maxthon, MyIE browsers, Opera, etc., and could be run on platforms including Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7.



PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:Whether you're surfing the Web, shopping eBay, remarking in a forum, or blogging in secret, secrecy is the last thing to meet when online. Somewhere, somehow, some people are trying to trace you and sniff your credit card information and your social security number, even your identity.

That's why we need to surf anonymously, i.e. browsing the Web while hiding our IP address and any other personally identifiable information from the websites that one is visiting.

Surf Anonymous Free is the most advanced and reliable software for Internet users who want to ensure that their sessions and all online activities are secure and private. For instance, it is used to protect your sensitive data such as bank account information, private photos from being stolen and pried, or visit those websites, blogs and forums that once blocked you.

Size: 2.38 MB
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Homepage: http://www.surfanonymous-free.com/
Licence: Freeware

Download Surf Anonymous Free

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Your Freedom

I prefer to call this software a flexible anonymizer and anti-censorship tool. It easily bypasses firewall as long as you get the configuration right. It is described by the publisher as 'internet most sophisticated proxy tunneling solution'. Your Freedom come with a user guide and I implore you to go through it carefully before you use the software. Before you can use this software, you need to create a free account with the publisher. The username and your chosen password gives you access to all your freedom's 32 servers. Your freedom allows you to connect to its server in different connection modes and these include http, https, udp, cgi and ftp. It's configuration is so flexible and it's been so hard for my network to totally block firewall bypass software over the years. What makes it even harder to block is that there are presently thirty two freedom servers to choose from and more are being added.

Configuration

As complex as the configuration might seem to a first time user, I still maintain that it's easy and self explanatory but I'll still give a hint on the basic settings.

1. Click on configure. In the space for address, input any freedom server eg. ems05.your-freedom.de
You can select any connection mode that suites you but I prefer https
Mark the required options as shown in the image below.




Other Your-Freedom servers are listed below:

ems01.your-freedom.de
Country: US
204.45.135.154

ems02.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
193.164.133.72

ems02a.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
193.164.133.61

ems03.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.149.35

ems04.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.149.43

ems05.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.84.103

ems06.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
81.169.130.185

ems07.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.22.104

ems08.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.45.166

ems09.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.81.33

ems10.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.45.170

ems11.your-freedom.de
Country: CH
80.74.137.161

ems12.your-freedom.de
Country: UK
83.170.116.30

ems13.your-freedom.de
Country: SE
75.102.7.92

ems14.your-freedom.de
Country: CH
94.231.80.100

ems15.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
193.37.152.232

ems16.your-freedom.de
Country: US
208.53.158.27

ems17.your-freedom.de
Country: CH
217.150.244.92

ems18.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
85.214.116.165

ems19.your-freedom.de
Country: UK
83.170.116.31

ems20.your-freedom.de
Country: CA
67.212.67.74

ems21.your-freedom.de
Country: SG
202.160.120.226

ems22.your-freedom.de
Country: HK
123.108.109.9

ems23.your-freedom.de
Country: UK
77.92.78.225

ems24.your-freedom.de
Country: CH
94.126.16.7

ems25.your-freedom.de
Country: SE
95.143.192.144

ems26.your-freedom.de
Country: US
76.73.94.195

ems27.your-freedom.de
Country: NL
85.17.222.12

ems28.your-freedom.de
Country: CH
94.126.17.227

ems29.your-freedom.de
Country: UK
77.92.95.115

ems30.your-freedom.de
Country: UK
77.92.92.156

ems31.your-freedom.de
Country: BR
187.45.202.179

ems32.your-freedom.de
Country: DE
188.138.24.228


2. Click on the "Account Information" tab and fill in your login details if provided you had already register an account.



3. If you are connecting to the internet through a proxy, click on the "Proxy Settings" tab and fill in your proxy and port.



4. Click "save and exit"

5. Now click on the "Ports" tab
Check both web proxy and socks


You may now go back to "Status" tab and start connection.

Before you start using however, you must set you browsers and applications proxy settings to 127.0.0.1:8080 [HTTP & HTTPS] or 127.0.0.1:1080 [SOCKS]


Publisher Description:Are you trapped behind a firewall or a filtering web proxy and cannot access some or many web pages or use an application you would like to use or play a game you would like to play? Is your Internet connection being censored and you would like to stick censorship where the sun doesn't shine? Would you prefer to stay anonymous, that your IP address is not logged with every access to someone's web page? Then look no further, you've found the solution!

The Your Freedom services makes accessible what is unaccessible to you, and it hides your network address from those who don't need to know. Just download our client application and install or just run it on your PC; it turns your own PC into an uncensored, anonymous web proxy and an uncensored, anonymous SOCKS proxy that your applications can use, and if that's not enough it can even get you connected to the Internet just as if you were using an unrestricted DSL or cable connection -- just like the firewall suddenly went boom! You can even make your PC accessible from the Internet if you like. Nearly all applications work with Your Freedom, and so far no-one has managed to block our service completely and permanently without blocking your Internet access entirely.

Every day, more than 30,000 people in over 160 countries use our service, some because their government would rather not have them exercise their human rights, some because their school or university feels they are not mature enough to decide for themselves whether playing the odd game interferes with their studies or not, others because they don't want traceable IP addresses in every logfile. There are probably as many good reasons to use Your Freedom as there are restrictive firewalls in the world!

Your first step to an unrestricted Internet access is to register on this web page-- all you need to provide is a contactable email address and a username and a password, nothing else is required. Then download the client application (available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and everything else that can run Java apps) and run it -- the wizard will guide you through configuring it properly. Then configure your applications to use your own PC as web or SOCKS proxy or use our transparent OpenVPN mode.

Size: 4.05MB
License: Freeware
OS: Windows XP, 2000, 98, Me, NT
Requirements: No special requirements
Publisher: Your Freedom - resolution GmbH
Homepage: http://www.your-freedom.net

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