The international Quranic Center is extremely dismayed
by the recent actions by some Gulf countries, including
the governments of Saudi Arabic and Bahrain to block the
center's website:
www.ahl-alquran.com.
The center encourages the users inside these two
countries and internet usurers who face censorship at
large to read the general instructions below from
wikihow on how to bypass blocking of websites.
It worth mentioning that ahl-alquran website also has
more than two thousand registered users who comment on
the articles posted on the website and engage in lively
discussions on daily basis. Right now the website has
more than thirty thousand comments in the website. The
result is that there is currently more than one hundred
thousand visitors who read the website every month. The
website is particularly well read in the Middle East,
including countries like Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and
Kuwait.
1.
Find a proxy or circumvention site. Sites
such as https://www.proxy.org offer
a way to bypass Websense by, for example, using a secure
connection (note that the url begins with "https," not
"http"). You can access the circumventor or proxy site,
and then access blocked sites through that.
Alternatively you can use a program called vpntunnel to
run programs (like bittorrent or games like World of
Warcraft etc) available from https://vpntunnel.com/
2.
Type the url you want to go to in the box on the site. Once
you access the proxy site, enter the address of the site
you want to go to in the box on the screen. If you're
using vpntunnel, install and log in with the software.
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Install a circumventor program on your home computer. At
Peacefire.org you can download a circumventor program on
your home computer so that you can access blocked sites
at other locations by connecting to your home computer.
Download a couple programs, and run the setup, and the
program will give you a url you can use to access it
from anywhere. Write down this url and carry it with you.
Note: you don't download the programs onto the computer
with the filter--you download them onto another computer
that you can connect to from the filtered computer.
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Enter the url for your home computer in the web browser
on the filtered computer. When
you're at a computer with a filtered connection (at work
or at the library, for instance), simply enter the URL
the circumventor program gave you, and you will be able
to access blocked sites via your home computer. Note
that this will only work if your home computer is on and
connected to the internet.
Since proxies get blocked often you should join a proxy
mailing list like the one below to keep getting fresh
proxies daily.
These are new created proxies (May 2008):
http://www.surfingstore.info/
http://freebrowse.info/
http://surfingtoday.info/
http://findwealth.info/
The way this works is that the proxy avoidance site is
hosted on a non-filtered connection. The page is routed
through that connection to your computer.
If you just want to read the text, type the site's url
into the Google search box and when the list of results
comes, click on the "cached" link.
The sites referred to above are just two of many such
sites available on the internet. You can search for more
if you can't get those to work.
The proxy site may have options to block cookies,
scripts, etc. You may have trouble accessing or
displaying many sites if you have all of these blocks
enabled, especially for scripts.
Websense can also be circumvented by using AOLOpenRide
software. You'll need an AOL/AIM screen name and log in,
but the OpenRide browser bypasses the WebSense filters.
This allows you to use games, downloads etc: In the
Start Menu, go to Run and type "cmd" without the quotes.
Press Enter. In the window that comes up, type "ping
www.whateverwebsite.com" and press Enter. It will say "Pinging
www.whateverwebsite.com [#.#.#.#] with 32 bytes of
data." The numbers after whateverwebsite.com are the
site's IP address. Enter these numbers, with the periods
between them, in your browser's address bar. You will be
able to access the page and all functionality will be
normal. - Does not work with Websense. May work with
other proxies.
Use the Google translation feature to function as a
proxy. Type in this url "http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.<sitenamehere>.com".
It uses Google to "bounce" the website, and since it
moves through google it should function unless Google is
blocked. This does not work with Websense and Google no
longer allows English to English translations.
CheeseCamera Working fine with Websense
Zenzur.Freerk.com A fairly comprehensive
guide to this and other ways to bypass filters
OkonIt A new bypasser that should work with
most censorship systems, for now.
en.cship.org/wiki The Internet censorship
wiki with many ways to bypass filters