Proxies at Work and School

When one is at work, the Internet can be quite a useful place. You can research up and coming products, view videos and tutorials on how t use them, and even keep a watchful eye on the competition so they don’t get a leg-up on you.  This would be a great reality, but the truth is, it isn’t like this.

The Internet, for all of its greatness, can be a very distracting place. While many workers use it for productive reasons, some just lollygag all day on it, and create a large loss of productivity among their company. It is for these workers sake that the Internet at work is usually highly restricted and censored. The same goes for school; if a paid worker is slacking off, imagine the apathy an unpaid student involuntarily put in a boring class feels!

This is why many sites are blocked while you are trying to surf them. Every worker has had some downtime, and bored, they try and log onto YouTube and gotten the “this site has been blocked” message. The company IT department usually is the one who arranges and sets up all of these blocks. They do so by finding keywords that they wish to block, and anything with them usually is. “Games”, “Videos”, “Fun”, and “Social” are some stock examples of what they block.

There are ways around this. While it is not a good idea to squander all of your work time logging on MySpace and viewing YouTube, some sites are unrightfully blocked. The keyword system is not infallible, and many sites that even have words close to the ones that are blocked will be grandfathered in.

Using an anonymous proxy server can get you through the blocks instated by your company workplace or school. These anonymous proxy servers will actually get you through the blocks by getting the sites for you, and it is like you never even accessed them. When you open up your anonymous proxy software or the website, there will be an address box for you to type the website you wish to go into. The anonymous proxy will then retrieve the website for you, and it won’t even keep record of you having visited the site.

If you are worried that your boss might find out you have been circumventing their online blocks, you are in luck. The anonymous proxy won’t keep any identifying information on your computer, and if you are using a web proxy, all your history will say is the name of the web proxy over and over again.

Your boss won’t be the wiser and you may be able to not be bored out of your mind during your free time. Also, you will be protected and safe on the Internet. You will have completely anonymous browsing and surfing as your IP address will be hidden, and no one will be able to track you.

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