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YouTube is a video sharing website that allows you to post and view them in a variety of formats, from standard quality to HD quality. Some schools and organizations restrict access to YouTube and others in educational environments. There are a number of ways that may help you bypass this blocking, from using Google Translate to accessing the network through your phone's internet connection.

Steps

Method 1 of 6: Use Google Translate

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   Open the browser tab with Google Translate. Go to your web browser.
   • When you load a page using Google Translate, you are actually deceiving your browser, making it believe that you are reading content on Google instead of the website you really want to see. You can use it to bypass blocking on virtually any site, including YouTube.
   • A few of the more popular filters will block Google Translate. In this case, please refer to the methods below.

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   Change language in the section on the left hand side. You can switch to any language except "Language Detected".

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   Change language on the right hand side. Convert it to your language to read the page.
   • You will receive an error message if you try to have Google translate the website into the original language. So let's convert it to another language.

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   Copy the URL of the video. Open the video you want to watch in another tab or browser window and copy the URL from the address bar.

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   Paste the link in the box on the left on the Google Translate page. Remove word from path if it is there.

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   Click on the path that appears in the box on the right. The Google Translate bar will appear at the top of the page. That is the way we use to deceive website blocking tools. Make sure you keep this bar open while watching the video. advertisement

Method 2 of 6: Use a proxy page

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   Open a search engine on your home computer. Most likely, most sites that list existing proxies are also blocked at school. Creating a list at home will help you find more sites to use.

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   Find "proxy list" on an online search engine. Proxies are sites that find blocked websites for you and display it through the proxy page. This means that the filtering software will never be able to actually detect that you are on the blocked page (YouTube), but only know that you are on the proxy site.

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   Find a website that lists many available proxies. Your search results should give you a list of several sites listing available proxy sites.

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   Make a list of about a dozen proxy sites to try out. The school's network administrator will actively block new proxy sites as they appear, meaning that the majority of the sites you find are already inactive.
   • Get the site from many different proxy lists.

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   Rewrite or manually email the list to yourself. Then, you just have to access this list from the school computer.

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   Go to the first page of your list. If already blocked, proceed to the next page until the active page is found.

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   Import .into the URL box. Click the button to open the page.

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   Wait for YouTube to load. Proxies increase the page load time because traffic must go through the proxy server. This means the video will take longer than usual to play. Also, in order to load YouTube, make sure that your proxy is not blocking the script. advertisement

Method 3 of 6: Use phone as a mobile hotspot

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   First of all, you need to identify which phones can do this. You need a smartphone that allows you to share your network connection with a computer via a carrier. Many 3G packages allow automatically sharing your network connection with your computer.
   • Using your phone as a network connection will help you overcome all the limitations of the school network.

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   Open the Settings app on your iPhone or Android phone.

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   Open the Portable Hotspot / Tethering section.
   • For Android - Select "More" under "Wireless & Networks". Next, select "Tethering & portable hotspot" (Internet Tethering & Mobile Hotspot).
   • For iOS - Select "Personal Hotspot".

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   Turn on the hotspot on your phone.
   • For Android - Check the box "Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot".
   • For iOS - Turn on the "Personal Hotspot" function.

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   Get the Wi-Fi password.
   • For Android - Select "Set up Wi-Fi hotspot". Check the box "Show password".
   • For iOS - Select "Wi-Fi Password".

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   From the computer, connect to the hotspot. Click on the wireless network icon on your computer and select your mobile phone from the list of available networks. Enter the password to connect.

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   Connect your phone to your computer via USB if wireless is not available. Once you have connected your phone to your computer, you will be able to select it by clicking on the network icon located in the system tray (Windows) or menu (OS X). advertisement

Method 4 of 6: Download videos

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   Find the video. Since YouTube.com has been blocked, look for the video through a search engine like Google. In the first results returned, there will be a link to the video's page on YouTube.

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   Copy the URL. Copy the full path of the video. This link should look like "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxx". In which, X is random letters and numbers.

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   Find video download services. There are many websites that allow you to download YouTube videos. Please search with the keyword "YouTube downloader".
   • Copy the URL of the video into the URL bar of the video download page. Hit the download button.
   • The first time you enter the video download page, you will have to run the Java script. Don't do this if you don't trust the site. Check the comments available online to see if others feel the site is safe.
   • It is possible your network will not allow Java scripts to be run when requested. In this case, you may not be able to download videos at school.

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   Download videos. A list of download options will appear. They are the different file types and video qualities to choose from. FLV and MP4 are the two file types with the highest compatibility.
   • You may need to have a special video player installed to open the downloaded file. A program similar to VLC Player should help you run any downloaded file.
   • The number following "P" in the download list represents the video quality. For video with the best image quality, select 480P or higher.
   • If you only want to get the audio portion of a video, download the MP3 version of it. Although there are no pictures, the file can be played on a computer or any MP3 player.
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Method 5 of 6: use the Command Prompt (Windows) command line interpreter application

1. Press the Windows + R key combination and type cmd in the open run box.
2. Type ipconfig into the black CMD screen and press the enter key (go).
3. IP test. For example: 222.222.0.0 (You will have another IP).
4. Go to Google.com and look for My IP. Click the Windows + R key combination again and type ping YouTube.com into the run box.
5. Then enter the IP address in the Google search box, for example 222.222.0.0 and you will be redirected to the YouTube homepage. advertisement

Method 6 of 6: Find an alternative video page

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   Find alternative portal. For educational videos, sites like TeacherTube, SchoolTube, and safeshare.tv are alternative video sources for YouTube. They are usually not blocked by the school network because the content is supervised and all educational.
   • If your teacher uses any of these alternative services, use them to reduce the risk of being discovered by website monitoring services.
   • Use a website with an SSL certificate. Website with an SSL certificate will start with https instead of http or have a green padlock icon next to the URL link. Meanwhile, the website is encrypted and not blocked in case the internet you are using is being monitored.

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   Find your video using an online search engine. Find videos available on non-YouTube sites. It is possible that the page was not blocked. Be cautious when visiting websites that you do not know, as they may contain many malicious viruses. advertisement

Some other sites that might work are: duckduckgo.comixquick.com

Warning

• Many supervisors view the use of proxies as misuse of school computers and as a result, you are more likely to be penalized when detected.