News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?. Parent comment

Re:Why is the US Green Party's site blocked? by reaperducer on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:02AM (#28116209)
The company I work for blocks Google Translate. IT claims it's the default that comes with the filtering software it uses.

Fortunately, since I build multi-lingual web sites, I was able to get an exemption from the security department.

(No, I don't use Google Translate to translate web sites. The company has three internal and two external professional translators for that. But sometimes when I'm copying-and-pasting between versions, I like a little reassurance that what I'm pasting is what I think it is.)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the US Green Party's site blocked? by writeslowly on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:10AM (#28116315)
Google Translate was a popular way to bypass filters when I was in high school since it could be used as a proxy and nobody blocks google.com
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the US Green Party's site blocked? by heelix on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:51AM (#28116814)
Hah! I have used Google Translate to do some naïve translations. Was creating portlet code that supported i18n, and took a crack at a few of the labels. Much to the amusement of the folks I demoed to, I used the French word for a person's back, not back in the context of navigation.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why is the US Green Party's site blocked? by spaetzleesser on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:42AM (#28116685)
The funny thing is that they often are blocking the well known sites but don’t block less known and potentially shady sites. I always notice this when I try to download a software I need. Popular sites are blocked but very questionable sites are open.
[ Parent | on HN ]