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22 July 2005

Online proxy site request Howdy. I'm behind a work proxy that knocks out a lot of sites (email, etc.). One of the sites I visit a lot (a cousin of Friendster) has been blocked today, and proxify.com won't allow me access to it because it's "interactive content", which they charge for. Does anyone know of some good proxy sites? (Not proxy servers, because I need to point my browser at the company server just to get out of the building, but http accessible proxy sites like proxify.com)

post by: bugbread at: 10:34 | 4 comments

Doesn't answer your question, but I'm genuinely curious: Does your company policy allow you to connect via proxy sites, when the site you're trying to connect to is deliberately blocked?

posted by veedubya 22 July | 10:56

No. But the company webfilter is a policy from the very top of the company, aimed primarily at regular day shift workers, that just happens to catch us night-shift workers along the way. My particular division, which has night shifts, has little to no problem with browsing as long as we don't download much. Browsing through a proxy site wouldn't get me in trouble unless I was looking at one of the sites that my particular division also forbids (porn, drugs, etc.) At worst, if a lot of people throughout the company used the same proxy site, it would be added to the block list, and the top would inform my division, who would check what I was looking at, and then say "don't worry about it" as long as it wasn't the bad stuff (which the site isn't).

posted by bugbread 22 July | 11:07

could you use Tor some way?

posted by mr.marx 22 July | 11:42

It might be possible, but I'm a bit more hesitant to install software than I am to use a proxy site. Perhaps if worst comes to worst...

posted by bugbread 22 July | 11:48

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