Depending on the country you are currently in, you may be blocked from accessing part or all of a website. One prime example is the US-only service HULU which blocks all users except those coming from the United States. The popular video hosting service YouTube on the other hand blocks users from specific countries from viewing the videos on the site. This basically means that while a video may be blocked in your country, it is accessible in the majority of other countries.
The Firefox add-on and Google Chrome extension ProxMate looks and feels like an advanced copy of the Grooveshark Unlocker, an extension that unblocks access to the Grooveshark site if it is blocked in a country.
The browser add-on adds two features on top of that make it more practicable. It first can unblock blocked videos on YouTube, so that they become accessible again. It detects blocked contents on YouTube Video pages, channels and search, enables the proxy and reloads the page to unblock the contents on the site.
The second new feature allows users to change the proxy server. This can be useful for privacy reasons, and in situations where the default proxy server may have been blocked or is not functioning anymore.
ProxMate works right after you have installed it in the Firefox web browser. Instead of seeing a screen like the following one that is telling you that you cannot watch the video,
you can watch it just fine with ProxMate enabled.
Please note that while this works automatically most of the time, you sometimes may need to reload the page a few times before the video starts to play.
You can change the proxy server in the settings. Here it is also possible to disable the add-ons functionality on select supported sites.
ProxMate is available for Firefox and Google Chrome. The extension can be useful if you like to access the Grooveshark website or encounter videos on YouTube regularly that are blocked in your country.
Update: Grooveshark Updater also came with options to change the proxy server in the add-on’s settings.
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