How to Unblock Facebook and Youtube using a Proxy

My Attempt to Unlock Everything on the Internet

Hello everyone, this is a post which will help you unblock facebook and many other social networking sites like youtube and linkedin to get across almost any firewall in the world. It is really hard to believe this fact but the magic almost works truly in every respect.

When I started my first job at my new company, I was very annoyed at first time to see an error on my browser screen that it was unable to connect to my favorite site. It was just because of certain software running at the server side which almost blocks request to your favorite sites like youtube.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com and many other social networking sites. Most of the companies or the network administrator does not want you to access these websites under any circumstances.

These being a major hurdle in being connected to your friends and family even at workplace triggered a quest in my mind for finding a solution to this problem. I took it as a challenge as an IT graduate and a network engineer to find a specific solution to this problem. This curiosity led me to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of internet web in accessing almost any website that has been blocked by your network administrator or any website that has blocked your IP in accessing its resource.

It happened so that one day I was lucky to watch a video of Ankit fadia’s show on MTV called What the Hack. I was really impressed with the talent of Ankit in exploring new ideas and ways to use internet in solving everyday life problems as a computer geek. He suggested some techniques which would help you unblock facebook with ease in some way to get access to your favorite sites using proxies and minor manipulation in the URL structure to bypass firewalls.

I will list out some of the techniques he told on the show:

1. You can use any web proxy on the internet like anoynymous.com and many other proxies.

2. You can also type your url like https://www.facebook.com instead of http://www.facebook.com.
3. OR you can ping www.youtube.com in the command prompt to find the IP address of the domain and then convert every octet in the IP address to its binary equivalent and put this binary address in the URL and hit enter.

My own research in unlocking everything in the internet and unblock facebook:

Well some of the options worked in minor network firewall software but it failed to give results in case of a strong firewall. So I went on further to explore and find a solution to fully unblock facebook and youtube like sites.

How to unblock facebook and youtube like sites?

1.   Type the following queries in the search engine like Google.com “SSL proxy server”, “free SSL web proxies” or “list of SSL proxy servers” in the search box and hit enter.
2.   You will get either a SSL proxy site itself or a site giving a list of free SSL web proxies. You will find hundreds of proxy sites but choose one of them having a SSL capability.
3.   For example: I will enter a proxy address in my browser starting with https and not with a simple http. So an example of it goes here https://www.kproxy.com and just hit enter.
4.   When you log on to proxy site, just enter your favorite URL in simple format like www.linkedin.com and click browse.
5.   This will start your secured connection with proxy site which will make your data completely secured from your own network administrator. This means that your router firewall installed in your network fails to read the encrypted information in packets and therefore cannot drop packets meant for facebook and youtube domains.
6.   Hence you can freely browse your favorite sites.
7.   This trick is much simpler than what ankit fadia suggested of converting IP address in to binary form.


Unblock facebook

How to access sites that have blocked your IP address from accessing its domain?

Well the solution to this problem is very similar to the one that I have suggested in the above paragraph but with a minor twist. Here you do not have to bypass your own firewall for accessing sites which have already blocked your IP.

So here you do not have to use a web proxy in https mode or if needed you can use any one of the mode to access your intended site. So actually you will be using a web proxy IP address instead of your own IP address thereby hiding your own IP address from other sites. So using proxies over the internet will be a complete fun and you will not have to worry about any major firewall coming your way. You can freely access sites that have been blocked by your network or sites that have blocked your IP address.

Features of using a proxy:

1.   You can enjoy uninterrupted access to the internet.
2.   You can hide your IP address and remain anonymous on the internet.
3.   You can bring complete secured communication by using a SSL proxy.
4.   You can unlock everything on the internet.

5. You can hide your identity.

Precautions while using a proxy:

1.   Never shop online using a proxy server. Because your information is shared with the proxy.
2.   Never access your online internet banking account through a proxy.
3.   Never use a proxy for important transactions.

I hope you really enjoyed this post and will certainly leave a comment or share it.