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IN Lately Often you have to deal with a situation where you are trying to access a site that is blocked by a filter in accordance with your office policy, educational institution, Internet service provider or government. Of course, there may be many legitimate reasons for blocking, but even the best web filters sometimes make mistakes and prevent access to trusted content.

If you are the victim of an unfair filter or simply want to access blocked content from mobile device, then you will find several methods presented to bypass the blocking useful.

We recently introduced simple methods to gain access to prohibited content from your computer. Many of them also work with iOS and Android mobile devices.

Browsers

This is one of the simplest and most popular ways to gain access to blocked resources, but it only applies to a browser session. Some mobile browsers have a built-in data saving feature, and as a result, your traffic first passes through browser service servers located in other countries where access to the site is permitted. Then the smartphone receives the already compressed data from the server.

VPN services / Proxy

Many private virtual networks, which allow you to access blocked content on your computer, also work effectively on mobile devices. Some services can be accessed using the built-in Android and iOS features VPN settings, and some VPN services have their own applications.

VPN on a smartphone works the same as VPN on a computer. Connect to a VPN and the service will send all your network traffic through VPN servers, which are used as connecting link. If the site is available in any country, then connecting to a server in that country will allow you to unblock access to this resource.

DNS services

There are several ways to enable DNS tunneling on a smartphone:

  • Changing settings on your home router. Default mobile iOS device or Android receives information about DNS server from your router. Thus, if the router is configured alternative DNS servers, then you can access blocked content from all devices on your home network.
  • Changing settings to Android device or iOS. IN in this case you will have to manually change the settings for each wireless network, to which you are connecting.

Using the Tor network

Tor anonymizer ensures your privacy on the Internet through multi-layer encryption and routing of your network traffic across distributed network, run by volunteers around the world. The service is absolutely free to use. However, a serious drawback using Tor can be called a decrease in connection speed.

Recently, most users in Russia, Ukraine and some other post-Soviet countries have questions about how to access a blocked site.

The fact is that in the CIS there are more and more laws that one way or another prohibit the use of various sites. The Russian Federation even has a whole register of such resources that are prohibited by Roskomnadzor.

In Ukraine, the most popular Russian sites, such as Yandex, VK, and so on, were recently banned.

In any case, now almost every user from former USSR It would be useful to know how to access blocked sites. We will consider all the most efficient methods.

1. Turbo modes

Many browsers have so-called Turbo modes. A striking example similar programs is Opera.

In many cases, to bypass the blocking, you just need to turn on this very mode. Read the help for your browser - it may also have a turbo mode.

To enable it in Opera, you need to click on “Menu” and click on “ Opera Turbo" After this, a check mark will appear next to this inscription, which indicates that the mode is enabled and working.

Rice. No. 1. Enabling Opera Turbo

2. Anonymizers

You can also access any blocked site through an anonymizer.

The principle of its operation is as simple as possible - the resource connects you to some remote computer, which stands in a distant country, even in Honduras. Thus, you are entering not from Russia or Ukraine, but from Honduras. At least that's what the system will think.

You can find it on the Internet great amount similar resources.

For example, proxfree.com is very popular. There you just need to enter the address of the blocked resource and click on the “PROXFREE” button. You can also select your country under “Server Location”.


Rice. No. 2. Using the proxfree.com anonymizer

The same principle of operation is relevant for absolutely all anonymizers. In most cases, the user will not need to specify the country, but only enter the address and press one button.

Here is a list of other popular anonymizers:

6. Psiphon

Another one interesting program, which encrypts the entire Internet connection. There are versions for Windows and Android.

For example, to use Psiphon on a Windows computer, you need to do the following:

  • Go to the official website and click on the “Psiphon for Windows” link.


Rice. No. 10. Psiphon download page

  • Install and run the program.
  • Next you need to wait until it connects to the servers and configures all its parameters. The completion of the download will be indicated by a checkmark in the green circle on the left top corner Psiphon windows.


Rice. No. 11. Psiphon is ready to go

You can now access blocked sites.

As you can see, here you can even specify exactly how the connection will occur. There are three options: SSH, SSH+ and the already familiar VPN. In most cases it is better to leave everything as is.

It is worth saying that in terms of connection speed it is best to work with Psiphon and TOR browser. In all other cases, pages take too long to load.

7. Change DNS

In addition to all of the above, you can take more stringent methods to bypass the blocking. One of them is to change the DNS server on the computer.

Now we won’t talk about what it is and how it works, because the most important thing for us is that it really works and allows you to access any blocked sites.

To change DNS, you need to go to the properties of Internet Protocol Version 4. IN different versions OS this happens in different ways:

  • In Windows 7, you need to open the “Control Panel”, then “Network and Internet” and click on “View network status...”. Then all you have to do is select the connection you are using, right-click on it and select “Properties”.
  • In Windows 8 and 10, you should do the same thing, only in the “Network and Internet” section you will need to click “Network Center...”. Then in the left panel you need to click on “Change adapter settings”. And then everything is the same - right button mouse and "Properties".
  • In Windows XP everything is even simpler. There in the “Control Panel” you need to select “ Network connections" And, again, “Properties” in the drop-down menu.

In the window that opens, click “Properties”, and in the next window click on the same “Internet Protocol version 4...” and again “Properties”.


Rice. No. 12. Accessing Internet Protocol 4 Properties


Rice. No. 13. DNS Change Window

This small device is a portable Proxy that just needs to be connected to an Internet cable. Works 100%!

It costs just under $75. You can buy it. There you can find all the information about the device.


Rice. No. 14. Onion Pi

I think many people have had a situation where, for some reason, you cannot get to the site you need. And you wondered: “How to get to a blocked site? Why can't I come in? There may be several reasons. In this article we will briefly look at the most common of them.

  1. Website blocking by provider
  2. State blocking of website

Let's look at these reasons.

Website blocking by provider

It often happens that the provider does not allow access to a certain resource. There can be many reasons for this. For example, the portal contains inappropriate information. How to open a blocked resource? There are several ways:

  1. Change of provider.
  2. Various browser extensions.
  3. Tor browser.
  4. Proxy

Changing provider and VPN services

“Why can someone ban me from visiting sites? How to unlock the portal? Changing the provider is the very first thing that comes to the user’s mind. But finding a provider who does not block access to the resource you need is quite difficult. If you are satisfied with the provider, then you can use a VPN. VPN - Virtual private network. Your signal to access the site passes through many servers, which are often located in other countries and have a different IP.

Quite a few services provide VPN services, and often they are paid, but if you need access to all sites on high speed and safety on the Internet, then 5-10 dollars a month will not seem like a lot of money to you. Some of the most popular services: Hideme, OpenVPN, NordVPN.

Browser extensions

If you do not want to pay money to visit prohibited sites, there is another way. Browser extensions. They will allow you to get to the desired portal completely free of charge, but their functionality and speed are much lower. Extension is a program that launches with the browser and gives it new possibilities.

For example, without a special extension, you will see advertisements on websites, but by installing the extension, they will disappear. But various types of extensions also have their downsides; they can be created scammers and hackers for your dirty deeds. There are quite a lot of extensions that provide anonymity on the Internet, but here are some of the most popular: Hola, ZenMate, TunnelBear, Touch, Hotspot Shield. All of them are free and anyone can use them.

Which browsers should I use?

Since not all browsers support extensions, here is a small list of those that boast this feature: Google Chrome,Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Yandex.Browser. It is also worth noting Opera and Yandex Browser, because they have a “turbo mode”, during which files are compressed and page loading speed increases. But also a nice addition is that during turbo mode the provider does not know where you are going.

Tor browser

Tor browser - completely free browser, providing maximum anonymity online. Tor consists of a network of proxy servers, which can guarantee anonymity on the Internet and access to various sites. He was created by the US military, but on for some unknown reason source browsers were posted on the Internet completely free of charge. Since the code is completely open, thousands of programmers checked it for spyware scripts, but it was absolutely clean. Based on this, you can trust the browser without fear for the safety of your data. You can download this browser on the official Tor’a website.

Proxy

Proxy is an intermediary between your computer and the site you want to visit. The principle of proxy operation is very simple, but nevertheless quite reliable. The signal from your computer reaches an intermediary server, from which there is a signal to the website with completely different ip and country. Proxy has quite a lot of advantages, including support for many browsers, traffic filtering, and anonymity. The following services are quite popular: 3proxy, Eserv, Squid, WinGate. There are both paid and free proxy servers. On paid ones, the data transfer speed will be much higher. But if you are in no hurry, free proxies are perfect for you.

How to unlock a resource on Android or iOS

Before this, we talked about how to get to a blocked site from a computer, but what to do if you need to get to the site from a phone or tablet? For this there are also various ways that do not require special skills. So, you can access the site from a mobile device using:

Let's look at the beginning of the program. Two are quite popular: Hola and Zenmate. You say, “But there are such extensions for the browser! This is true, but they were released on phones as individual applications. You can download them completely free of charge at Play market or iTunes. After installation, you can select the country from which your requests to the site will come, and the IP also changes.

If you don't like these programs, there is another option - special browsers. Namely Yandex. Browser and Opera mini. IN mobile versions browsers Turbo mode remains, which allows you to enter blocked portals, just like from a computer. There is also anonymous browser Orbot, made by the creators of Tor. Essentially, this is the same Tor, just with a different name. The principle of operation is the same as on a computer. In such a browser, you can open tabs in incognito mode without saving history.

These were the main ways to bypass the blocking of a certain resource.