Free The Guardian proxy. No install. Works on a Chromebook, a phone, and a locked work laptop.
What is a The Guardian proxy?
A The Guardian proxy is a server that fetches The Guardian for you and returns the page through your browser. Instead of your device asking guardian.com directly, your browser asks anyproxy.site, and we ask The Guardian on your behalf. The site sees our server, not you. Your network sees anyproxy.site, not The Guardian.
That single hop is what lets a blocked The Guardian page open. No app to install, no account to make. Six regions, sorted by real latency.
From your country
Which errors it fixes
These are the exact messages The Guardian shows when the network in front of you refuses the connection. Every one of them is a block sitting between you and the site — routing the request through a region where The Guardian is open steps around it.
How to unblock The Guardian
It is already in the box above. Paste a full The Guardian link if you have one.
We start you on the nearest server. A closer region means smoother loading.
The Guardian opens in this tab. Use it as you normally would.
What works on The Guardian
Why is The Guardian blocked?
The Guardian is one of the most-visited sites on earth, with more than 400 million monthly users. That reach is exactly why it gets blocked — not by governments most of the time, but by the network you happen to be on.
Schools and offices filter it to save bandwidth. Some ISPs throttle it. A few countries restrict it during elections or unrest. In every one of those cases the block sits between you and The Guardian, so routing your request through a server somewhere else steps around it.
A proxy does not hack The Guardian or hide who you are from the operator. It just fetches the page from a place where it is not blocked, and hands it back to your tab.
FAQ
On school & work networks
School networks — Chromebooks, hostel Wi-Fi, campus VPNs — filter The Guardian more often than any country does. Corporate networks are similar: IT policy tools like Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler, and Cloudflare Gateway maintain block lists that include The Guardian by default in the "social media" or "news" category.
Because AnyProxy is a website — not an app or extension — a Chromebook that blocks extensions still opens it in Chrome. A locked work laptop that will not let you install a VPN still lets you open a web page. Paste guardian.com and The Guardian loads in the same tab.
Speed & privacy
Latency. The Guardian loads through the nearest AnyProxy region — one hop. On our free tier, expect the same load time you would see on an ordinary café Wi-Fi network. On Pro, priority edge routing shaves 20–40 ms off large-page loads.
Privacy. Traffic between your browser and AnyProxy is TLS-encrypted. Between AnyProxy and The Guardian, TLS again. Your local network sees an encrypted connection to us — never the The Guardian URLs you asked for. We do not log the URLs you visit.
What The Guardian sees. The site sees a request from our region's IP, not yours. Once you sign in, though, The Guardian knows who you are — the proxy hides the request origin, not your identity.
Alternatives
1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 bypass DNS-level blocks. Fast to try, no install. Fails on IP-level and DPI blocks.
Routes every app. Requires an install — blocked on managed Chromebooks and locked work devices. See proxy vs VPN.
Beats DNS + IP + most DPI. Zero install. Works inside one browser tab. Best when you need The Guardian open right now on any device.
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