1st for me !!!

[Monky]

They may be doing this with DNS, but it's most easily defeated with a VPN.

There are free VPN apps out there that will work for this purpose... but I subscribe to one that supports all platforms and allows me to use like 5 devices at once.

My employer uses something like this, it does the same, gives a reason for the block... one time it was "Men's Health"... so apparently they want me to just die already, so I use VPN on my personal devices... that'll show 'em.

Which vpn are you running? I’ve been looking at setting one up on the router at home


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[Grant H.]

I have Private Internet Access for a annonymizing VPN.

I like it. It's easy on Windows and Linux (no experience with Apple, I actually use my computers), and it maintains good speeds for any/all internet traffic.

It's also inexpensive at $40/yr. If you're worried about being "super secret" you can go pay cash for a gift card from various vendors, and use that to pay PIA.

They don't keep records, and they have end points all over the globe.

[68Charger]

Same here... PIA

I disqualified quite a few when I required linux support

[68Charger]

You can easily integrate PIA into a dd-wrt router to make an entire home under a VPN. (many off the shelf routers can be converted into dd-wrt making them more secure and in essence, more valuable)

The only real downside to it is latency is going to be higher, but that's only noticeable in the context of online gaming really.

Very true, and latency depends on location... but only adds about 5ms to Dallas in my case... I've been pretty impressed with them.

Just keep in mind that doing this will make everything on your network appear from the same IP as it exits the VPN... so your phone logging into Google or Apple will ID that IP as associated with you. Not necessarily only you (they use shared IPs, so other users have the same IP).

It's an extra layer, but VPNs don't make you completely invisible... unless it's Hollywood, and you're trying to get to "the mainframe"

[Little Dutch]

I’m always a little surprised when this forum loads at work. A large percentage of interesting stuff is blocked there.
It’s blocked on the guest wireless though, so I have to drop my internet connection on my phone to browse when I’m being professional enough to not use my work laptop for personal use.

[Justin]

For those who want to try a VPN without paying for it, the Opera browser has built-in VPN functionality.

[Bitter Clinger]

I use Hi vpn on my mobile devices. I dont even use my pc or laptop at home other than gaming or youtube.

[Wolfshoon]

This is a setting the admins of the forum board make. Employers that provide internet access will usually blacklist certain categories such as GAMES and Weapons and Bombs.

This could be easily fixed by ar-15.co owner, just change your category to something like news or science. When I ran/admin'd a gaming forum board a decade ago that is what I had to do to be able to get access to it at work.