I would like to ask about something not quite related but relevant. I will first like to point out that I am clueless about programming or anything computer software related. I realized recently that there are a lot of articles from international news stations that have been modified in the U.S. There are so many articles that I cant access the full article. I can only see an abbreviated form. For instance, let’s say Al-Jazeera has an article on some issue in America for some odd reason, I always have to ask someone abroad to send me the article because it will always be modified on my end. Is there a reason for this? I think it might be VPN but then again I dont know. How can I have full access to the content. By the way, this happens with many other news stations so I dont think its about subscription. It is about media control but I want to read them and can never access them. Please help
I haven’t had to do this myself but I can suggest a few things.
The website itself where you are reading is simply detecting your country by IP address and delivering sanitized or alternate data.
It may simply be reading the HTTP headers you are sending, which is telling the website your language is English, and sending alternate data that way.
The website may detect you want English and is using some kind of automated translator which isn’t doing the best job.
To get around this, you’d have to use a proxy service to make it look like you are in that country (or another country that doesn’t get sanitized results).
I would be careful if you are browsing around for “free proxy services” because in that space, free is usually not free. A proxy service can read all your data in and out, and are notoriously flimsy, going offline randomly.
Another method would to find some service in that country which can relay the data to you just like how you use your friends to do it. For example Google cache or another cache service may be able to show you the real page rather than sanitized pages.
I just don’t have any solid recommendations for you though. You could try the Tor Browser as a free method to proxy around the issue. The problem is if you end up coming from another IP where they serve sanitized data, then you’re in the same boat anyway, but it’s worth a shot!
A much more secure and quality way to go would be to use a professional VPN which is more secure and more robust. Take a look at ProXPN as they have some level of free service you can try.