Go to Internet Options in Control Panel and on the Security tab, click on Restricted Websites in the Internet Security Zone, and then on the button labeled “Sites” (See image below). If there is no account-related message, probably the site has been blocked using Internet Options. Not much can be done in this case except to try portable browsers that do not need to be installed and offer proxy as well. If it says “Due to Restrictions On This Account”, it could be a Family Safety Software.
If toggling between HTTP and https does not help, check the error message you are getting when trying to access. Internet Options – Restricted Websites & Content Advisor The term “HTTPS” represents a secure connection while the “HTTP” is the unencrypted version of the website URL. Likewise, if it was “https” blocked, you can try “HTTP” only to see if you can access the website. For example, typing in may open it for you because only “” was blocked. The first thing to try is to add or remove an “s” to the “HTTP” preceding the website URL. For example, Open DNS employs a category system, and if you wish to go to a category that your parents have chosen to block it for you, it will provide a notification. There are different options to access a website, and they depend on the mode used to block the site. Access Blocked Websites Blocked on a Computer Read: How to blacklist or block websites in Chrome, Edge, Firefox on Windows. It will tell you if a blog or website is working, online, up, down right now, or not to anyone or everyone. You may not be able to access a particular website due to some outages. So if you find that you are unable to open or access some websites, here are a few things you may want to try out. Some of the tips may be repeated in this article. The article is an expansion of our other article on what to do when a website does not open.
Rather, we’ll focus on how to access a website that is restricted on your workstation by network admins and ISPs (Internet Service Provider). We’ll not be talking about how to block a website. Then, there are some software other than the built-in “Restricted Websites” in Internet Options that help in blocking a website. Some DNS services, such as Open DNS, too provide options to block certain types of websites for different users sharing the computer. Websites can be blocked at three levels: Computer level, Network level or the ISP/Governmental level.