How to Bypass Blocked Websites Using Anonymous Proxy

As in my previous post in sourceforge net blocked in China, it’s the time to let you know how do I bypass Chinese Great Firewall, so that I can still access any XXX websites, Torrents, blocked websites such freetibet.org, savetibet.org, adbrite.com and etc.

If you find in country like China blocking websites like sourceforge.net or FreeTibet.org or SaveTibet.org or even you can’t do “cache:tjenarvi.com” in Google or even more “wikipedia.org” (long time ago, year 2007), I have solutions if you met these cases again for you so that you still can surf those websites:

Three Workaround options:

1. Online Anonymous Browsing

If you don’t want to be confused with IE or Firefox setting, and don’t want trying to get the Proxy IP address and port, even you tried to get hard to find SSH account, and you only want to access the statis pages, there is a good solution for you.

Try open http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/anonymous.shtml and see Free Anonymous Surfing or Browse with Privacy Protection section, over there you can just start surfing anonymously by just entering your the URL you want to visit to the textfield form provided.

Let’s say we use,  https://proxify.com/ or http://www.proxybrowsing.com/ or http://htmlblock.co.uk/anonymous_web_browser/

Pretty easy huh?  If you want to get more, try search “anonymous browsing” in Google.

Update: Alternatively, here is the list of proxies website that you can use to Unblock Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, and etc. It works for me especially when I am blog walking to those friends whom using blogspot

2. Proxy by getting their IP address and port
This is the common way to skip the blocking websites.  Go to Google.com or Yahoo.com or any search engines and type “free proxy” or “free proxy list”.  You just need to know what is the IP address and the port number.

3. SSH Tunneling Dynamic Port Forwarding
A more professional way, but you to have SSH account.  What is SSH? Go to wiki and find it what it is.  I won’t explain any theoritical stuff here.  If you try to find out free SSH account then go to http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml.  Most of them you have to register with their IRC.

To SSH Tunneling in Windows

Please go to Google again and download putty.  Then follow this screen-shots:

1. Open your putty and go to tunnels

2. Source port could be 8080, or 3128 or 1080

3. Select Dynamic

4. Click Add

5. You can see that it is added

6. Login your SSH with putty.

• Go to Session

• Input your username@yourhost.com

• Input your SSH port, default is 22

• You could also click “save” to save session

• Click “Open” to login

To SSH Tunneling in Linux.

Just go to terminal and type
# ssh -D 8080 username@yourhost.com

To use SSH Tunneling as a PROXY, in Firefox

1. Go to Firefox Options.

In Windows: “Tools” Menu -> “Options”

In Linux:  “Edit”Menu -> “Preferences”

2.  Set up “Socks Host” field as localhost and port number is the port you have specified when you login with putty in Windows or “ssh -D” in Linux.

To use Free PROXY in Firefox

• Just use fill up the IP address and the port number in “HTTP proxy” field, in Firefox.

For Internet Explorer (IE)

Actually it’s the same as in Firefox, just the place the set is different

1. Go to menu “Tools” -> “Internet Options” and follow these screenshots.  Go to “Connections” tab and click “settings”

2. Check “use proxy server” option and then click “Advanced”

3. The same as in Firefox, if you got free proxy server, just put the IP address and the port number in “HTTP” field.  For SSH tunneling proxy, the same as in Firefox, put “localhost” in Socks field and port number you specified when you login SSH.

Result of Proxy or SSH Tunneling as a proxy.

Just go to www.cmyip.com 

That’s all folks, happy browsing !!