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As a guy that works heavily in the systems administration side of IT, I have seen more than enough dumb-fuckery like this bullshit right here to say, get a proxy/jumpbox if you can and try keeping it under wraps. While everyone else is handicapped by not being able to use the goddamn internet 'cause of your dipshit admins, you'll be able to casually move forward without the road block. (YMMV depending on corporate policy)
Good luck though and I hope it gets better for you and tell other devs!
The company I work for (very big IT consultancy) has made the absolutely genius decision to put a block on the corporate proxy for GitHub. GITHUB. Because no fucking software developer ever needs to visit there. Their reason? "We don't want people publishing our intellectual property". Mate, I can fucking guarantee you that if unscrupulous bastards want to publish code against our T&C's, they will do so. Why make every body else's job harder and block it?!
But the best bit, you can submit a request (that is accepted without question) to get yourself an exemption. WHY THE FUCKING FUCK HAVE THE BLOCK IN THE FIRST PLACE THEN
To add to their fucktardery, they blocked the CDN that hosted stackoverflows css and JavaScript last year (CloudFlare) weeks after the alleged hack was fixed, and seemingly without any research at all. This obviously rendered stackoverflow unusable. Because again, why would a company full of engineers need to go there.
Morons.
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