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While some companies (and locations) block access to certain websites, you can (possibly) easily get around said blocks via Google — by telling it to translate your target page from\/to English<\/a>, and essentially using them as a proxy server, e.g., using http:\/\/www.google.com\/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com <\/em>to get to www.forbiddensite.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Of course, a visual review of URLs may spot this, and it won’t hide your IP address, and it would be relatively easy for Web Nanny software systems to block something like this — but it’s a rather clever hack nonetheless.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While some companies (and locations) block access to certain websites, you can (possibly) easily get around said blocks via Google — by telling it to translate your target page from\/to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27994,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/blocking-websites-can-have-amusingly-unanticipated-consequences.html","url_meta":{"origin":8287,"position":0},"title":"Blocking websites can have amusingly unanticipated consequences","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-May-12 1:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Amusing juxtaposition of events:1. 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