Proxy Unblocker

Online privacy has become an issue for many users, as more websites log private user information for the purpose of marketing research. Internet users can achieve different levels of privacy, depending on the desire to remain anonymous when surfing the web.

Let’s take a look on privacy risks may arise when browsing the internet:

Internet Service Providers

When you surf the web, all information goes through your ISP’s servers and being logged. ISPs keep these logs for some time in case if authorities request it. In special cases authorities can overlook all your internet traffic.

IP address

Many web sites use IP logging of their usage. You can get over this by using anonymous proxy server.

Data logging

Many web sites, computer software and operating systems use data logging. This information could be, for example, times when the computer was in use, visited URLs, the lists of recently opened applications and documents and other information. Due to the security holes this information could be available to third person.

Cookies

Although cookies are very commonly used by many websites, they can also be used with malicious intentions. Cookies are commonly placed on user’s computer without notification. The original intention of cookies was that only the site that placed them could retrieve them. But some web sites can use cookies to find out a specific user’s browsing habits. The easiest way of preventing this is to completely disable cookies in your web browser. Keep in mind that this could limit functionality of some sites.

Tracking

Tracking is a process of retrieving information about a user’s surfing habits. Internet marketing research companies use this information to discover general internet surfing habits. Additionally, some organizations set up honeypot websites about controversial issues to collect such information.

There are several services at Google that can help you to gain access to blocked sites.It is very promising strategy because your school filters don’t block Google in most cases. Let’s see how to use Google as the proxy.

Google cache

You know, the Google stores snapshot of sites when he’s crawling the internet. So we can use it to access blocked sites. To do this go to the home page of Google and search for the web site you want to access. Then choose ‘Cached’ at search results to retrieve the blocked page using Google’s cache copy of the page. Since these pages are extracted from Google’s servers, you will be allowed to access them in most cases.

Google Translate

The basic idea is simple. Google translate service goes between blocked site and your school computer. Google works very similar to the proxy website in this case. The problem is that we don’t really need pages to be translated. We need them as they are. The solution is to translate them from English to English. The code below will do the work. Just change the url (example.com) with the site you are trying to access.

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.example.com

Unfortunately not long ago Google forbid translating from English to English. But this is no problem. Here’s the trick. You know, the translation software leaves unknown words as they are. So lets set the source language for Arabic (for example). In such case every word on the page will be unknown to Google translator so it leaves them with no changes. Here is the currently working code that helps you to transform the Google translation service to proxy website.

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=ar|en&u=www.example.com