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Wouldn’t surprise me. Last trip to mainland China and nothing worked online. Apps like Instagram, sites like Google, etc. except Bing and WeChat. Perfect WiFi y

• fermienrico 8y ago
  I think this is specifically addressing gaming restrictions deployed enmasse by the Chinese gov. I go to China often and I ask people there what do they think of the govt - everyone nodes in unison with their approval. This is scary.
  • ngokevin 8y ago
    Not true from my point of view, people have the same criticisms of their government as you'd see in any other country. Chinese people aren't like brainwashed.
• chj 8y ago
  To any one coming to China, get a shadowsocks server ready first! Or let me know if need help.
  • Macuyiko 8y ago
    To be even more prepared: spin up two Digital Ocean Shadowsocks servers in case one gets throttled down (which happens after extensive usage). I often combine this with ExpressVPN as well, which still works in China (although many are sceptical of how ExpressVPN has managed to do so over the years, so expect there to be logging). I wonder how long it'll take before Steam going offline as well, now that they are both thinking about implementing streaming and the fact that gaming is seen as unharmonious these days (e.g. refer to Tencent's recent stock drop). Steam is currently handled by Perfect World Games as the Chinese partner, so I'm curious to see what will happen.
    • chj 8y ago
      vultr works even better
      • ksec 8y ago
        I wonder if it is because so many are using vultr for this purpose now they started to accept WePay.
  • sfifs 8y ago
    Or get a low cost international roaming data plan. Nothing is blocked if you are on international roaming because essentially your traffic is tunneled to your home country carrier.