As a consequence, many countries will allow for a second passport to be issued to citizens wishing to circumvent this restriction.

However, in practice programmers can circumvent this restriction.

In some areas, wealthier people purposely own two cars with opposite-parity number plates, to circumvent any restrictions.

Some books were published clandestinely or circumvented the restrictions by showing publishing dates prior to 1936.

Converters or passthrough devices have been used to circumvent the restrictions, while flash memory devices (game backup devices) were widely adopted in later years to copy game media.