Youtube is the world's biggest video sharing site. Video itself is becoming more and more popular as broadband internet connections become quicker and quicker and thus it becomes simpler to quickly load and view videos online.

Enjoyable as it is, there are some places that do not allow access to The Youtube website on their premises and will strive to block access to it and other related sites. This is no doubt annoying for users of Youtube.com but do not agonize - there is a solution. Your solution lies in the form of a web proxy.

What a web proxy does is utilize itself as an middleman between yourself and the internet. Consequently your IP address is masked and replaced with the IP address of the proxy. Your IP address is analogous to the address of your own house. This means that your IP is known and can be logged by the websites you go to. Whilst using a web proxy you have total security and anonymity when using the internet.

Another usage of this or what could be regarded as "abuse" of a web proxy site is to use it to unblock these blocks set in place by places of work and schools to forbid entry to specific sites deemed unacceptable as described above.

Due to the fact the URL or website address is of the web proxy and not of the website that is blocked you want to visit you are thus able to bypass said filters and visit your favorite sites. All you need do is visit the web proxy, input the URL address of the site you want to visit in the proxy's mini URL bar (not your browser's URL bar) and click to browse the site.

But, due to the fact you are not going directly to the website in question to browse its pages, you are going by means of a third party i.e. the web proxy, so browsing may take a bit longer than you might expect. Its worth the bother though if it means you can access the website you want to. Additionally speed will vary from proxy to proxy so do not be satisfied to use one that is simply too slow to use as there are many to select from.

Another bonus when using a proxy is all your browsing history is that of the proxy and all URLs are encoded so wherever you go to on the internet, no one will be able to check up on it in your web browser's history.

The question of ethics comes down to the user in the end. The choice is available to use a web proxy to bypass Myspace or for some other use but its clear that places of work and schools place blocks and filters on those sites for a reason.

You need to find reliable proxy servers to unblock youtube and for that you really need a youtube proxy list.

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Bret Sherman writes regularly about internet related topics. I hope you enjoy this article.

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