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Open or anonymizing proxies, including Tor as well as many public VPNs, may be blocked from editing for any period at any time. While this may affect legitimate users, they are not the intended targets and may freely use proxies until those are blocked. No restrictions are placed on reading Wikipedia through an open or anonymous proxy.
Hundreds of US news websites are not globally accessible as they have blocked visitors from the EU due to the GDPR. [1] [2] Some workarounds are listed here to allow those who are affected by this to access those sites anyway. The workarounds listed here may also work (YMMV) in cases where your country has blocked access to a particular site.
Child safety advocates and state legislators argue that more needs to be done to keep children safe online and away from adult material. Age verification laws force adult sites to require some ...
Open public proxy sites do not provide anonymity and can view and record the location of computers making requests as well as the websites accessed. [4] In many jurisdictions accessing blocked content is a serious crime, particularly content that is considered to be child pornography, a threat to national security, or an incitement of violence ...
Websites commonly used by students to circumvent filters and access blocked content often include a proxy, from which the user can then access the websites that the filter is trying to block. Requests may be filtered by several methods, such as a URL or DNS blacklists, URL regex filtering, MIME filtering, or content keyword filtering ...
A 2003 study reported that "blocking software overblocked state-mandated curriculum topics–for every web page correctly blocked, one or more was inappropriately blocked". [ 90 ] Some libraries may block access to certain web pages, including pornography, advertising, chat, gaming, social networking, and online forum sites, [ 91 ] The use of ...
An open proxy forwarding requests from and to anywhere on the Internet. An open proxy is a type of proxy server that is accessible by any Internet user.. Generally, a proxy server only allows users within a network group (i.e. a closed proxy) to store and forward Internet services such as DNS or web pages to reduce and control the bandwidth used by the group.
In November 2017, BBC made it clear that Russia has not banned VPN usage entirely. VPN usage is only banned when attempting to access sites already blocked by Roskomnadzor or Russia's governing body for telecommunications and mass media communications. [13] Using a VPN for business or personal reasons to access legal sites in Russia is ...