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How To Bypass School Internet Filters

Is your school blocking your favourite websites so that you can’t visit them while at school? You can use school proxy sites to unblock those sites so that you can visit them anyway.

What’s a school proxy and how does it work? It’s basically a website that you can visit, and then you type in the address of the site you want to visit. The proxy then visits that website on your behalf, loads the page, and pipes it back though its server and displays it for you. It basically lets you visit websites indirectly, and as far as the school firewall is concerned, the only site you were visiting was the school proxy site.

Of course, school administrators want to have total control over what you can and cannot visit, so they will try to block all proxies as well. So if you find a good working school proxy, be secretive about using it, and don’t share it with too many people. If it gets blocked, you’ll have to find a replacement to unblock Facebook at school with.

The good news is that there are plenty of replacements, because it’s really easy for webmasters to set up new proxies. Once you’ve made one, you can make a million, so new school proxies spring up faster than school admins can block them all. The hard part though is finding the fresh working ones.

You can search Google for them, but for the most part if it’s findable in Google, a school admin has probably already blocked it. There are some mailing lists you can join that will send you new proxies as soon as they’re made, but school admins are probably subscribed to those lists as well, and block them as soon as they get published.

So the best way to find working proxies is to make your own, or become part of small underground communities where people make their own proxies. These are less likely to get blocked because they’re not widely known.

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