In many collages schools and offices, the management use to block many social networking and useful websites due to various reasons. Even our favorite sites like FACEBOOK, TWITTER, G MAIL, MYSPACE, HI5, and FREINDSTER are getting blocked these days. This article will let you know about the all possible ways to unblock websites on internet so that you can access the blocked websites easily. By using the below mentioned tricks you can unblock and open almost any websites on internet.
Here you go, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO UNBLOCK WEBSITES ON INTERNET
14 ways to access blocked websites
1. Proxy websites to access blocked websites
Proxy websites are nothing but of online proxy servers, Instead of directly connecting to the websites that are blocked at your place, you will first connect to a Proxy server and it will redirect to the blocked website and you can access them easily.
There are many proxy websites available on internet, I can give you a huge list of them. But these are most widely used online proxies.
- http://www.hidemyass.com
- http://www.spysurfing.com
- http://kproxy.com/index.jsp
- http://proxify.com/
- http://www.proxymouse.com
How to open blocked websites using Hidemyass,
You can use this simple method to access all the static websites and can access them quite easily, IF even HIDEMYASS website is blocked in your collage, school or office just pick any other proxy website from the above list it will work fine.
2. Use Tor Browser to surf anonymously to open blocked sites.
Using the above method you can only access the static websites, you can't use social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, MYSPACE…etc. because social networking sites uses browser to store cookies and that can’t be possible by using these Proxy websites. So, here is an alternate way
Using TOR you can browse anonymously on internet. Its most widely used utility for hiding our identity online. Just Download it from the below link and start using it
3. Hola browser extension to Unblock websites.
Hola is Browser extension available for all popular browsers, by using this extension you can browse on internet anonymously. Just check the official website of HOLA and install the browser extensions directly from there.
4. Use Proxy IP address in browser settings.
Few of the browsers supports to use the PROXY IP address in them. So that if you can surf anonymous using them. To use this you need Mozilla fire fox web browser and Proxy Ip address. You can get the huge list of Proxy websites from HERE.
In your Mozilla Firefox browser open the OPTIONS box and click on ADVANCED. Below the CONNECTIONS select SETTINGS. Click on MANUAL PROXY SETTINGS and enter the PROXY IP address (click HERE for PROXY IP address list), Port 8080 there and save settings. With this your browser will surf using that proxy ip address. You can pick and change the other Proxy IP address if that’s not working.
5. Access Blocked websites by Using Way Back Machine.
WayBackMachine is a through which we can know about the previous Look of any website from its archives. Enter the URL of the blocked website and you can even access the previous versions of the website that are blocked at your Place.
6. Use IP address instead of domain name
Collages/schools and websites normally block websites using some software’s in which they enter URL’s of the Websites they need to block, so that whenever if you enter the domain name of any website they will simply get blocked. So you can access those websites if you enter the IP address of the websites
To find the IP address of the website just open your command prompt on your Windows PC by pressing WIN+R > type CMD > hit ENTER. Now in the Command prompt just enter the following code.
Ping website.com (enter the blocked website in the place of website.com).
Now enter that IP address on your browser and you can access the BLOCKED websites.
7. Open Blocked sites using decimal code.
In the above method I asked you to use the IP address, but what if even the IP address of the website that you need open was also blocked??
By using the decimal numbers you can access any blocked websites, because none will even block the IP address in decimal. To get the decimal code of IP address using THIS TOOL
For example IP address of google is http://74.125.236.160/ you can use the decimal format instead HTTP://1249766560
8. Take help of Google cache
Google store the cache of each and every website often. You can access the cache of any website using googles old CACHE. Just search for the BLOCKED website which you need to open and click on the CHACHE link below the search results as shown in the below screen shoot.
9. Using Translation web services
There are many website on the internet GOOGLE - TRANSLATE and BING - TRANSLATE like which will convert the whole page from one language to another. Enter the URL of the blocked website in those site and convert the web page into another language. From this you can convert the whole page into another language and can access it.
10. Browsing on HTTPS connection
HTTPS is nothing but of the secure connection, where data will be encrypted. This trick will work in many colleges and schools (This trick even worked in my Collage). Instead of using HTTP use HTTPS and try to access the website. For example you need to visithttp://www.google.com then try https://www.google.com and try to access the site.
11. Open blocked websites Using URL shortners
Normally URL shornters are used to shorten the length of the lengthy websites. By using such sites you can bypass the security and access the websites. Try using TINY URL MooURL
12. Get an email of the webpage using web2mail
Web2mail is a free site which will let you to get the mail of any webpage that you requested. Check the site for more details. You can get any blocked website as mail to you so that you can access them VIA your email.
13. Use VPN software’s and Unblock websites
VRN software’s will let you to browse anonymously, you just need to download and install them on your PC. There are both paid and free VPN software’s available. Here are 3 best VPN software’s that will allow you to unblock websites.
- HotspotShield VPN
- TunnelBear Vpn
- ProXPN VPN
