Some day, you might find the truth that you are not alone. Someone is watching you and the same one is also trying to restrict your access to some web sites. You may notice that you are unable to visit some urls or the whole sites. In conclusion, your internet connection is monitoring and filtering to prevent visiting to some urls. Don't worry. It is possible to bypass this kind of problem easily. My trick is The Onion Router, Firefox and its extensions.

If you are on Windows, I recommend to use Torpark which consists of Tor, portable Firefox and a set of extensions for running on any media including usb drive. Otherwise, you may use the original Tor, Vidalia (GUI), Firefox and FoxyProxy. I like FoxyProxy because you can continue the rest of your life transparently without worrying to turn on/off the proxy to Tor. In particular, you may specify url patterns in whitelist or blacklist to use the Tor proxy seamlessly.

Above technique should work fine for all regular network providers. Anyway, some network providers and some blocking might try to lie Firefox in DNS level. You should resolve the domain name through the Tor too or else use other name server like OpenDNS. I recommend to configure Firefox to resolve domain name through the Tor by following below instruction.

1. Go to about:config.
2. Adjust network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true

That's all. You should visit all sites right now no matter where you are. I found above technique at Blognone.

Tags: internet censorship, blognone, firefox, tor, foxyproxy, opendns, torpark