Recently, I noticed that I have been unable to access some of my favorite sites. In some cases, I would get pop ups on my screen explaining that the sites were blocked because they contained pornography. That is shocking, because I only come to this site to chat in the forum. Who knew that there were images of naked men on this site?
Anyway.. I found out WHY I was getting blocked. It was due to DNS servers. One way to get around that is to use a proxy server - at the cost of having very slow speeds. A much better way is to run the utility DNSBENCH (remove the redirecting servers) run that, and select the 2 or 3 fastest DNS servers. Then, go into your ethernet and wifi adapter, and insert those DNS addresses into the IPV4 section. A much better option is if you use a router.. go into it's setup, which is typically 192.168.x.x (in my case it is 192.168.1.1 but it can also be something like 192.168.1.100... the x's always seem to be either a 1, 0, or 100) Then, go to the local connectivity and insert the DNS addresses there. The DNS addresses which were blocking me were 208.67.222.220 and 208.67.220.123 which are identified as being "opendns"