Bypassing the school network

VPN
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Hello fellow teenagers!

I have been at my school since Year 9, and I am currently half way through year 12. For the past 3 years I have been trying to find ways around our school’s internet firewall that blocks almost everything.

It blocks games, social media (including Reddit), duckduckgo, numerous web-based apps, and even sites on things like abortion (for school projects)!

I am also taking Year 12 software development, and many regard me to be the best programmer / “hacker” (I don’t really know any hacking but I put some green text up on my cmd screen so everyone thinks I’m a god), and they have asked me numerous times to find a bypass to the school filter.

I have tried.

The school uses a SmoothWall firewall, and it seems they have the settings maxed out. Sometimes, it even blocks Google for no reason.

My question to you fellow noblemen, have any of you found a way to bypass the strictest of strictest school networks? Most of the time I only try and get past the filter because I need to gather data on a sensitive topic, like Israel (e.g. should Israel give more autonomy to Palestine) but this is of course blocked for “Extremism reasons”. -.-

Things I have tried so far:
VPNs
Home-based VPN
Web-based VPNs
Proxies
Changing my IP
Trying to hack SmoothWall UI
Using Google translate to translate webpages

TL;DR:
School network is very strict, any ideas on how I can get passed it?

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We use a chrome extension ultrasurf at school, does the trick nicely. Not sure if it’d work for you.

3

We just use a VPN at my school works wonders!

4

Has anyone thought to talk to administration about the fact that it’s too strict? That it’s not allowing you to do research for school projects?

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My school uses this same program. If you find anything hmu. I could do with some bypasses as well.

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Actually hack it then

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Wat school blocks Google?? What search engine do they use??