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Stalin84 · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Location: Haebangchon, Seoul

I'm generally pretty good with what websites I go to at work and what websites I go to at home. Since I'm into games, I visit a lot of gaming websites however I limit it to news websites at work.

Anyway, in the last week or so, I've gone to some websites that have immediately been blocked shortly after I visited them. Some examples:

www.thehuffingtonpost.com
www.gamespot.com
www.slashdot.org

Its a bit annoying as I don't see these websites as NSFW. Sometimes Huffingtonpost has a humourous but NSFW news story however I save that kind of stuff for when I'm at home.

Slashdot doesn't even have pictures. Its just a well known news feed on technology.

For some odd reason, they haven't blocked Facebook, hotmail or Dave's... Are they picking on me or is it the same for everyone?

Cheers!

lukas · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Location: Bucheon

www.hotspotshield.com/

Download this program. It blocks your IP address so you can go to any website you want. You can even watch movies on hulu.com outside of the USA

Stalin84 · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Location: Haebangchon, Seoul

blackjack · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang

all fine for me

lukas · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Location: Bucheon

lost at sea · Joined: 27 Nov 2009

If a school blocks a website, just use this website for a quick proxy and you can view any site:

http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html

hockeyguy109 · Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Location: Daegu

Has anyone ever actually been talked to for going to certain sites at work? Yeah, the PS schools seem to randomly block sites. Like craigs list, for example. Whats the big deal? There's more risky stuff on sites like myspace and facebook.

gay in korea · Joined: 13 Jan 2010

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/proxy/list_rating1.html

that's best list I've found. Is constantly updated and can be sorted, as you can see, by ranking.

I had youtube blocked along with a few others. The tech guy came into fix something he checked it and couldn't figure it out. So he then went to a gambling site (which worked) and a porn site (which also worked).

Lesson: gambling and porn are ok, showing Mr Bean to kids on youtube is WRONG.

gillod · Joined: 02 Sep 2009

I have the weirdest sites blocked. Anything with link aggregation: Reddit, Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon. BoingBoing is also blocked, maybe deservedly. That's about it, everything else works.

Murakano · Joined: 10 Sep 2009

same here.......

Craigslist is blocked and even The Guardian (British newspaper)

lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China

I can't access www.okcupid.com

I haven't tried downloading programs though. Just proxy sites won't seem to work.

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thoreau · Joined: 21 Jun 2009

Senior · Joined: 31 Jan 2010

My school recently blocked A.V Club. Mad

Oh well, it's not work related in any way.

The most annoying bolocked site is Dropbox. Well the folder syncing, not the site itself. Dropbox is actually useful and work related. Good one bureaucrats. Rolling Eyes

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

If you don't already know who the computer science teacher is, go to the administration office and ask who he or she is. The CS teacher is usually the school's net administrator. Go to him or her and explain that some sites are blocked that should not be. Worked perfectly for me when I started at this school four years ago. It's not always some nefarious net nanny at work.