Leo’s heart thumped as he installed the extension—a tiny green lock icon. He clicked “Connect.” The icon spun, then turned solid green. VPN active.
Maya didn’t look up. “So unblock it.”
He looked at Maya. “So… unblocking a site is just… finding a path the filter doesn’t recognize?”
Leo remembered a trick from a coding club video: proxy sites . These act like middlemen. You visit the proxy, tell it where you want to go, and the proxy fetches the page for you, hiding your real destination from the school’s filter.
He didn’t give up. He recalled another loophole: Google Translate. Some older filters treat Google’s translation service as “always safe.” The trick: instead of visiting the blocked site directly, you ask Google Translate to translate it from any language to another.