Re:In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being ...
by barrkel on Sunday April 17, 2011 @09:47AM
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Customer requests are redirected by ISPs to the transparent proxy on an IP:port basis. DNS is not poisoned; using a different DNS will not affect how it works.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf
I personally use a cheap VPS located in the US to get around IP geolocation (e.g. occasional Youtube videos, Hulu etc.), and it can also circumvent this, though I have never had cause to - my Be Pro account does not block filesonic.com, for example.
If they are going as far as inspecting http traffic (and selectively editing/blocking some of it) with a transparently proxy rather than redirecting selected domains via DNS poisoning then your only way around this is some sort of VPN which of course requires a host elsewhere for the VPN server to run on (unless you use something like Tor, but that is very slow and may cause the same "many people from a small set of IP addresses" problem itself anyway due to the relatively limited number of exit nodes).