Unblocking Youtube

Youtube is a popular website that lets users watch, share and upload video clips and has since become the leading video sharing website in the world. Almost all kinds of video clips are seen here from movie clips, trailers, music video to videos made by the users themselves that brings so much humor, entertainment and joy to those who are viewing and sharing it.

That is why youtube.com is being accessed in almost all places where there is an internet connection namely at schools, homes, offices and a lot more. But not all of these places allows the access of youtube.com particularly some offices and most schools prohibits the access of youtube.com for different reasons and are blocking this site from being accessed from the computer.

Youtube.com is blocked most of the time by firewalls and filters and this prevents users from accessing the website without the use of some software that are designed to overpower the strength of a lot of blocking tools and there are also lots of ways to use hacking method in unblocking youtube. Another way of unblocking youtube is by the way of using proxy servers.

Proxy servers are website servers that are hosted online that allows users to hide their computer setting and remain undetected by the computer’s firewalls and filters and other blocking tools and access youtube.com indirectly with the help of these proxy servers. Most proxy server website has a text box on the upper page where you can type the URL of the website you want to visit and afterwards you will click a button which most of the time says "surf" or "access".

For example upon opening a proxy server website, in unblocking youtube you may need to enter "youtube.com" on the text box and then click the button right next to it and it will automatically direct you to the main page of youtube.com. So far this is the easiest method of unblocking youtube.

A proxy server serves as a sort of middle ground for the process of unblocking youtube. First of all, you need to search a proxy server probably by searching the different proxy servers at google.com or at any other searching sites like yahoo.com. Simply type in each of the following search strings on the search box and see what results you may come up with.

"Proxy server list"
"Top Proxy servers"
"Best Proxy servers"

After you’ve chosen a proxy server website, follow these steps if you want to set the proxy server website on your computer browser permanently and avoid opening a proxy server website each time you use the computer and the internet to access Youtube.com

Go to your Internet Explorer browser’s tools menu, click Internet Options then click the “Connections” tab and after that click on the "LAN Settings".

1. In there you will see an Address box where you will put the address of the proxy server that you’ve chosen.
2. Type the port number used for client connections by the server in the Port Box.
3. Click so you can select the Bypass server procedure for addresses. Remember to check the box if you decide that you may not want the computer server to be used when you will make a connection between a computer on to the network.
4. Click on the exit button to get out of the box of the LAN Settings box.
5. Click “Ok” for the last time to finally exit and leave the Internet Options menu.

There is of course other ways in unblocking youtube like for anybody to use the IP Resolution method in order to access the unblocked youtube and other blocked websites that has a weak filter of firewall. This type of unblocking youtube method works only for firewalls and filters that only check for the information regarding the domain name, the website is not entirely blocked but only the domain name which is similar to the computer or website’s IP address.

Internet is a great thing that happened to the world. It help us share information and have fun browsing a lot of useful and informative websites such as youtube.com and it is our right to freely access these websites even if they are blocked for some reasons at our school, offices or at some countries like Saudi Arabia and China which are known to block a number of popular websites for security reasons as they like to state. These methods will help you in unblocking youtube and other websites that are blocked.

Other methods of unblocking youtube and other blocked websites are as follows:

1. To access a blocked website like youtube you can try to type the IP number instead of the website URL in the browser’s address bar. But this only works if the ISP software that is being used by your network is not mapping the IP address to the web server; otherwise you will not unblock the blocked website.
2. There are a lot of URL redirection website services like snipurl.com and tinyurl.com that can help in accessing youtube and other blocked websites.
3. You can also use the language tool of Google as a form of proxy server. You just let Google translate the language on your page from the English language to English or what language you prefer and it will easily redirect you to youtube and any other blocked website.
But the best and simplest way of unblocking youtube would be to surf anonymously and undetected by your network supervisor using proxy servers. It is easier to do and perhaps the most effective method of unblocking youtube and other blocked websites.

Remember, enjoy surfing no matter how your company or school decides to block certain websites as long as these websites are legal and does not contain nudity and violence, websites like youtube.com provides information through the form of video clip and anybody has the right to access it and it’s a good thing that there are ways of unblocking youtube and making it accessible to many internet users all over the world.