Websense is, put plainly, a form of local internet censorship. Your boss, company, parents, school, or even your local government take it into their hands to decide which websites you can and cannot access.
Even if you agree in principle with this kind of restriction on web surfing, you can imagine the problems: there are literally billions of websites and no human can ever keep track of even a small number of them. Thus, the websense filtering and blocking becomes partial, arbitrary, and worst of all, valid sites get blocked in over-zealous websense rules.
Anyone behind a websense-style web traffic filter will need to get around it / "unblock sites" sooner or later, just to function normally online.
A websense proxy is a website that acts as a middleman for your browsing. When you use your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc) normally, it requests pages from each different domain (.com, .net etc website) that you visit. When you use a websense proxy you are only communicating with one domain, the domain of the websense proxy site. Thus, as long as that site is not blacklisted by the website filtering, you will be able to use that proxy site to browse anything else.
In simple terms a websense proxy disguises / anonymizes your web browsing so you can visit any site and not get blocked.
There are millions of proxy websites out there, and most of them will do the job of unblocking websense.
Unfortunately, it's a kind of arms race. Any particularly well known websites for bypassing websense - and this is one of them -_0 get banned in generic websense blocklists fairly quickly.
Therefore you're always going to need to search for new proxy sites to keep ahead of your web censors, or "administrators" as they call themselves :D
Another advantage of only using the freshest proxies is that the servers they are on get overwhelmed with traffic fairly easily so if you are using them after everyone else already knows about them, your browsing will be a little slower.
To find a websense proxy simply search google for terms like:
Alternatively you can use a directory of sites to always grab the latest websense proxys:
We recommend the following proxies for websense unblocking: