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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hi there, everybody,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Pillette. I'm

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Speaker 1: an editor here at how Stuff Works. Sitting next to me,

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Speaker 1: as usual, is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Hey there, and

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Speaker 1: we were gonna talk about something, but we'll have to

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Speaker 1: do it through someone else. Yeah, yeah, we have to

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Speaker 1: have a proxy. Wouldn't you say? Yeah, I'd say so.

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Speaker 1: You had another wonderful segue. Thank you, Mr Pilette. So

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Speaker 1: this is in response to an email we received U.

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Speaker 1: Tim West wrote to us and said, I'm writing to

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Speaker 1: you on behalf of your podcast on parental controls. While

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Speaker 1: I was listening to this podcast, I noticed you were

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Speaker 1: talking about how your children would find ways to bypass

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Speaker 1: parental controls. This made me think of proxy avoidance systems.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that this would be an interesting podcast

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Speaker 1: to develop since I, as well as many others, are

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Speaker 1: interested in this topic. Thank you for your in formative podcast.

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Speaker 1: There joy to listen to. Well, Thank you, Tim. It's

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Speaker 1: a joy to get that kind of email. Um okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's start this off by saying we do not

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Speaker 1: recommend you use proxies to get around systems. Uh. That way,

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Speaker 1: there gout that on the table. We can move on

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Speaker 1: from there. Actually, speaking of of unusual, I guess it's

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Speaker 1: Whereas I was thinking more along the lines of of

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting, I guess, uh, I was saying that

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Speaker 1: it never would have pegged it would. Well, what I

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Speaker 1: and um basically keeps you from going out to UH

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Speaker 1: but you're bypassing it in ways that the company allows

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about clients and servers. The client requests

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