Hence my disclaimer at the top of my post. However, having been a software engineer at multiple Fortune 500 companies that don't even allow their software engi

Hence my disclaimer at the top of my post. However, having been a software engineer at multiple Fortune 500 companies that don't even allow their software engineers local admin rights or relaxed proxy filtering - things that we need to do our jobs - I've had to use this workaround to, well, do my job. Sometimes there's a patch or a workaround for an esoteric bug on someone's private blog that you can't access because it's on a .nl domain and your workplace blocks all .nl domains unless specifically white listed, and it would take you weeks to file and get approved a request to get it white listed. If you happen to be at a company that doesn't trust you to be on the internet and to administer your own computer, this is one way you can use to access what you need while you look for a better place to be employed. I've found it useful and thought I'd share.