I believe freedom to access any Website is a right that every adult person owns. Though despite all the freedom, in colleges, offices and many places many sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter other social networking site and entertainment sites are blocked.
Obviously, there are ways like Proxy sites but they are not very effective. Most of the firewalls, block such proxy sites and your dream of accessing blocked sites get shattered.
I would suggest instead of searching for working proxy sites, you should try proxy software’s. Some time back, I already talked about Ultrasurf and how to configure Ultra Surf.
Now in this tutorial, I’m talking about another proxy software call Your-freedom. Like Ultrasurf, Jap, it is also popular desktop proxy software. Though it’s not light weight like Ultrasurf and not a plug and play software.
Your-freedom requires a couple of steps before this software start giving you access to all open blocked Sites. Though one thing which I liked about Your-freedom is, it works in the worse case scenario. In my college, other proxy software gets blocked later on but Your-freedom was the only proxy software which worked.
Anyways, now let’s get the real thing started and follow the guide to your ultimate destination to freedom from Internet censorship.
How to Configure Your-Freedom
Download Your-freedom from the official site. <Link> and install it. You can download the offline installer (12MB approx) or online installer. My preference would be offline installer as it will save bandwidth.
Once you installed Your-freedom click on Start your-Freedom. On the very first screen, you need to select the language.
Next screen would be a welcome wizard. Click on next to start with the configuration of Your-Freedom proxy software. If your internet requires you to use proxy settings to connect to the Internet, you can add proxy settings here. In my case, I’m leaving it blank as I’m directly connected to the Internet.
If you not sure that you need proxy settings or not, click on Try to autodetect. This will find proxy settings from your browser.
Tweak your settings:
Next option is tweaking your settings. You can select your Internet provider based on your country and if your ISP is not on the list, click on None and click Next.
If you are planning to use this software extensively, you can select protocols to be used. Though default options are good to start with. Here are the default protocols which are selected. Verify if your settings are same as mine and click on next.
Your freedom servers:
On the next screen, it will start searching for Your-freedom servers, and your screen will look like this.
Here you will find all the Your-freedom servers, and according to preference, you can select the best server from your location. Select the best server (Ex: ems22.your-freedom.de with Pref 10.0 in above screenshot) and click on next.
Login access for Your-Freedom:
Unlike other proxy servers, Your-freedom requires you to create an account to login to your server. Go to their homepage and sign up for a free account. Enter your-freedom login credential on the setting page, and you will see a screen like this:
Proxy settings for Your-Freedom:
Notice the proxy settings for Your freedom. You can connect using Socks 4/5 or normal Web proxy to connect to Your freedom servers.
In your browser change your proxy settings to 127.0.0.1: 8080. I used Socks 4/5 to configure my torrent client to connect to Your-freedom server. Socks4/5 setting would be: 127.0.0.1:1080.
Click on save exit and on the main screen of your freedom, click on start connection. If you have done everything as mentioned above, you will see a screen like this:
That’s it, and now you are all ready to access the unblocked internet using this useful free software.
Do let us know which proxy software are you using to open blocked sites at your end? If you have a problem connecting to Your-freedom server or have any question regarding configuration, do let us know via comments.
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hello Harsh sir.
This software is not working for me.
M facing connection problem.
@Baljeet What Error are you getting?
Sir actually when i click start connection, it stop after a second.
and when i check for the message menu, there is
“Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 1: Opening new FTP control connection to ems30.your-freedom.de port 21
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: Connected, now associating with the session
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 1: Control connection is now ready
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: Data connection did not come up properly
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: telling EMS module that connection stopped
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:10 PM 1: STOP, reason: unknown
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: connection stopped
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:10 PM 1: stopping connection
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: Tweaks: India_Bharti
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: Will use server ems30.your-freedom.de and connection type ftp null
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 1: Opening new FTP control connection to ems30.your-freedom.de port 21
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: Connected, now associating with the session
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:22 PM 1: Control connection is now ready
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:22 PM 0: Data connection did not come up properly
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 0: telling EMS module that connection stopped
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:09 PM 0: connection stopped
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:04 PM 1: STOP, reason: unknown
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:21 PM 1: stopping connection
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:24 PM 0: Will use server ems30.your-freedom.de and connection type ftp null
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:24 PM 0: Tweaks: India_Bharti
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:24 PM 1: Opening new FTP control connection to ems30.your-freedom.de port 21
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:27 PM 0: Connected, now associating with the session
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:27 PM 1: Control connection is now ready
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:27 PM 0: Data connection did not come up properly
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:24 PM 1: STOP, reason: unknown
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:24 PM 0: telling EMS module that connection stopped
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:22 PM 1: stopping connection
Aug 20, 2011 5:09:23 PM 0: connection stopped”
i note this log file.
is there any fix.
i am working in Reliance communications
my system is logging as gust account, cant install any software
any other way?
problem on how to configure setting ,need help now.
your freedom is not working in my college…i tried everything…but it cannot find any server:(