The hotel I’m staying in has a rather annoying filter on their net connection. Basically it won’t allow me to connect to any URL with the string “xxx” in it. It’s probably blocking other “content” as well, but since I’m a registrar trying to sell .xxx domain names I noticed the “xxx” filter pretty quickly!
Circumventing the stupid filter didn’t take much.
Using SSH and a server I have in Dublin I was able to bypass it in less than 30 seconds (thanks to Paul)
Open a terminal and run this command (change the IP / hostname to a machine you have access to)
ssh root@$ip -D1080
Then tell Firefox (or your preferred browser) to use a SOCKS proxy to connect to the web:
And now your web connection will run via your SSH tunnel 🙂
No more stupid filters!
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