Use Google Translate as A Proxy

Proxy servers help you to browse the web pages that were blocked in your area or workplace. In some countries even most popular websites like youtube.com, facebook.com etc. also have been blocked for various reasons. There are numerous ways to use proxy servers to browse such websites.

Some people use softwares, extensions or web apps as proxies to visit the blocked sites. I had bad experiences with those proxies because of too many annoying adds. Some proxies do not support to play video files and they also block cascading style sheets (CSS). It results nasty look for the page.
Recently I learnt how to use Google Translate as a proxy. It works perfectly and doesn’t block video files as well as CSS. It gives original look of the page.

How to do it: Type in the address bar http://translate.google.com and also add translate?sl=en&tl=ta&u=http://example.com. Here ‘sl’ means source language and ‘lt’ means destination language. [en – English, ta - Tamil] Don’t forget to set original language of the website as destination language. Don’t worry about source language. This may be ‘en’ or ‘ja’.

For example, the following URL has Tamil [The original language of the website] as its destination language while source language is in English.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=ta&u=http://lankasri.com