Comments on: Avoiding Censorship: How Blocked Websites Stay Online and Accessible [MakeUseOf Explains]

By: Ali Khan

Ali Khan — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:09:20 +0000

Really enjoyed the article, there are other ways to bypass the block. For example you can go to alternative websites like http://piratebaysafe.me/. This is just a proxy that accesses and gets all of it information from the original piratebay. There are other lots of other proxies. Another way is to use google translate, just type thepiratebay.se in the first box, choose any language except English, and the language to translate to choose English.

By: Peter Clarvis

Peter Clarvis — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:15:09 +0000

I’m so glad I discovered “Makeuseof” Am enjoying the articles tremendously.
With the variety of subjects covered, who knows, maybe I’ll also end up as a nerd.
Thanks

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:41:08 +0000

I`m using this when I need to to access blocked sites: http://www.sunvpn.com/ . It`s a VPN service, works similar with a proxy, only faster..

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:54:51 +0000

The website owners update their DNS records, and DNS servers pull from there.

By: Srinivas N

Srinivas N — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:04:07 +0000

Chris. Gr8 article. Very interesting trivia too.
My question is how does DNS (Google or OpenDNS) keep track of updated IP adresses every now and then if websites try to change IP to bypass block.

By: Erlis Dhima

Erlis Dhima — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:05:07 +0000

Good article! :)

By: Aloha

Aloha — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:00:27 +0000

Well I’m from India, and I’m interested to know which ISP you are using?
For me, my ISP, BSNL, run by the government itself, have never blocked
any website. I have been torrenting for years and will be doing the same for years to come.

By: Muhammad Ahmad

Muhammad Ahmad — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:49:58 +0000

Thanks

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:50:16 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation! Seems like a decent free version.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:30:32 +0000

Wow — just goes to show you it really does depend on how they implement the block, I suppose. Never would’ve guessed that would work!

By: Muhammad Ahmad

Muhammad Ahmad — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:26:48 +0000

I always use SecurityKiss , Its best choice. You can download the software and you can configure it as a virtual private network manually, It’s free but limited to 300MB per day.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:08:33 +0000

Yup — and if you don’t care about speed, there’s always Tor.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:08:13 +0000

Great advice, thanks! I’ve never used ultrasurf, but Tor is solid.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:07:22 +0000

Yup, that’s part of the reason DNS blocking is a bad idea — people can use something like OpenDNS or Google DNS. If they forced OpenDNS to block The Pirate Bay as well, people would use other, shadier, less-trustworthy DNS servers.

It’s a bad idea to push people towards less legitimate DNS servers that could become compromised and redirect traffic to phishing sites. DNS shouldn’t be tampered with (this was a problem with SOPA in the US, as well).

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:05:47 +0000

I believe they’re just shutting down the servers that the virus is using. Infected people will just have to change their DNS servers back — it doesn’t remove the virus, just breaks infected systems’ DNS settings.