Circumventing filters

Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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My work filters are preventing me from accessing oddschecker and betting sites.

Is there any way round them?

Curiously enough, one site gets through the filter but I tend not to bet with the firm.
 
Presumably it's baldfred that gets through the filter is it? On account that you cannot actually get a bet on through the site!
 
I've a few on my short list for the 'new' Ebor. I can remember some of my telephone account numbers but I'm missing out on better prices or best price guarantees.
 
These days it's a extremely difficult to get around a filter, even if you get around the filter, if you go to place a bet the filter will pick it up and the page will white out. If you are in a large office you could acquire a second system, perhaps a laptop, and set that up at your desk. Than be nice to the house techie and find out if there is a line out of the place that's not monitored.
 
Oddschecker is blocked where I work but www.easyodds.com is not for some reason.
I can only get access to vcbet.ie and Sunderlands.eu though...

I use 3G on my Nokia N95 mobile and use the bookmakers mobile apps, incl Betfair. I can also check oddschecker this way.
 
qzy said:
Oddschecker is blocked where I work but www.easyodds.com is not for some reason.
I can only get access to vcbet.ie and Sunderlands.eu though...

I use 3G on my Nokia N95 mobile and use the bookmakers mobile apps, incl Betfair. I can also check oddschecker this way.
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I got thru to easyodds no problem but can only access one bookie (the same one - VC).
 
I have a funny feeling that the Websense lot monitor my contacts because every week a site that I have been using gets blocked.
 
Aldaniti said:
This is a new one on me, are you actually saying workplaces can block what you can do on the net?
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Yes, they can & do. Usually, porn sites, betting, games, even email.
Most annoyingly, they block access to 'forums' (like this one), where you can ask for & obtain or search for useful technical info. They're paranoid (it's a substitute for intelligence+effort.)

Luckily, I have 2 network cards, so can run two sessions (more to it than that, but effectively so): one blocked & the other free :)

Regards
 
If they didn't the amount of time spent on eg Facebook, YouTube, betting sites, internet forums and looking at porn or mailing jokes would waste even more of the working day! The economy would probably come top a halt LOL
 
How many times have I said it: better to be lucky than good.

I ended up trying to phone my bets but couldn't get an answer (from totesport). All The Good was on my shortlist but was one of the 'casualties' when I decided to get serious about finding the eventual winner. I'd have backed Bauer and Milne Graden with a wee sentimental EW on Carte Diamond. Money saved is as good as money won.

(Almost.)
 
LOL Michael! No - Ive almost always been self-employed, and if there had been the internet for most of that time I doubt if I'd have made even the meagre living I did, the temptation to follow racing etc would have seen to that!

I was being tongue in cheek, but there are surveys which show the astonishing amount of time that employees fritter away in personal use of their computers...
 
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Aldaniti said:
This is a new one on me, are you actually saying workplaces can block what you can do on the net?
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As said earlier, yes. And they can also have a full list of what you are viewing, how often, how long you spend etc. Where I used to work they acually employed someone to monitor all of this stuff. Staff only heard about this if they were pulled up for doing something considered over the top. There were periodial warning messages sent out though and then if you chose to ignore them they could sack you.

What amazed me was that a couple of very high profile senior staff were sacked because they were soooo thick that they had sat in their cosy offices daily looking at porn sights and in their great ignorance and arrogance it had never ocurred to them that they might nor be alone! :eek:

We were a telecommunciations company after all, should have suggested to them that it would have been fully spyware.

Same stuff happens with phone calls, people are unaware that the company they work for will know exactly what they are doing.
 
Isinglass said:
What amazed me was that a couple of very high profile senior staff were sacked because they were soooo thick that they had sat in their cosy offices daily looking at porn sights and in their great ignorance and arrogance it had never ocurred to them that they might nor be alone! :eek:.
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Heh. My last two jobs have actually required me to look at porn sites.
 
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