How to Unblock Websites

How to Unblock Websites” No matter what country you live in, you will have to deal with websites or apps that are blocked in your country. Worse still, these restrictions mean you can’t watch some great Netflix shows or play some great video games.

The easiest and most effective way to get around geo-blocks is to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). When you connect to a VPN server, your real IP address is hidden, and it looks like you’re coming from another country where the website or its content is available.

That’s not the only way to access a website that your school, workplace, or even the government has blocked. Sometimes, open proxies or just changing your DNS settings can also do the trick. In this article, we’ll look at 8 ways to get around censorship and geo-blocks so you can browse the web freely.

How to Unblock Websites

Virtual Private Network

How to Unblock Websites: VPNs are by far the most popular way to access sites that are blocked. But getting around blocks is just a side effect of how they work. True to its name, a virtual private network reroutes your traffic through its own set of secure servers.

This is like extending the private network at your home, school, or work onto a virtual public network. In other words, a VPN acts as a “middleman” that takes your data and sends it again where your traffic would normally go straight to a website.

1. You open the VPN client on your desktop or web browser.
2. The VPN client encrypts your outbound traffic. Depending on the provider, you may also be able to specify which apps will use the VPN (this option is known as “split tunneling”).
3. Your encrypted traffic gets sent to the VPN’s network of secure servers. Like with any connection, your traffic is divided into “packets,” each of which includes source and destination IP addresses. Here, the source IP address is that of your private home, work, or school network.
4. The VPN server removes your source IP address from each packet and replaces it with its own. In doing so, the receiving end will think that your traffic came from the VPN server, not your computer.
5. Your traffic is decrypted and received by the recipient, who won’t be aware of its true source.

Change Device Permissions

On an Android device:

1. Open Chrome.
2. Go to a website you want to unblock.
3. Click More.
4. Click Info.
5. Click Permissions.
6. Click Reset Permissions.

on an iPhone or iPad

1. Open the Chrome app.
2. Click More.
3. Click Settings.
4. Click Content Settings.
5. Click the permission you want to change.

Proxy

1. Go to the HMA website
2. Enter the website URL that you want to visit anonymously
3. Click on the More options dropdown menu, and select Encrypt URL and Disable Cookies for more protection
4. Click Agree & Connect, and you’re on your way.
5. HMA will display a toolbar at the top of the page.
6. This lets you choose a location to appear from when you visit a site, which removes content blocks. 

Use the Google cache

1. Go to Google’s homepage and enter the website or webpage of the site you want to unblock.
2. Click the down arrow to the right of the site’s URL (or the three vertical dots).
3. Click Cached — if you’re lucky, it’ll open.

Use Tor Browser

Tor (The Onion Router) is an open-source project that includes the Tor network and the Tor browser, which is based on the Firefox browser. Tor Browser adds multiple layers of encryption to your traffic, which is then randomly routed through the Tor network to hide your IP address before it gets to the blocked website you want to visit. Tor’s name comes from the fact that it has many layers of protection, and you can use it to access most websites anonymously, even dark web sites.

1. Go to the Tor Browser site.
2. Select the device you’re using and follow the instructions to install Tor.
3. When Tor first launches, it will give you some configuration options, depending on what country you’re in and what your internet network settings are.
4. Once you’ve configured Tor (if necessary), go ahead and connect.
5. Now you’re in the Tor Browser, and you should be able to access whatever blocked website you were trying to reach.