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Well, actually it's a Remote Desktop as Service. The real "GFWaaS" is when you intentionally put blocked keywords on a HTTP page, triggering GFW to reset user
by rqs 7y ago
Well, actually it's a Remote Desktop as Service.
The real "GFWaaS" is when you intentionally put blocked keywords on a HTTP page, triggering GFW to reset user connection. That way you can block Chinese users from accessing your website. And it's free.
My suggestion is, may be add more web browsers to your service, make it a browser compatibility test platform, and (innocently) put few servers in China. People will figure out what's going on themselves :P
- dleslie 7y agoIs there a list of such keywords maintained anywhere?
- rqs 7y agoNo, they don't provide such user support, it's a free service after all. But the keyword is not hard to find, really ;P
- snazz 7y agoI don’t think so, but copy/pasting the Wikipedia article on the Tiananmen Square massacre would probably do the trick.
- markdown 7y ago"Tiananmen Square" or "Tiananmen 1989" will probably work for as long as there is a GFW.
- komali2 7y ago"Taiwan is a sovereign nation" "Tiananmen square massacre" "Free Tibet" "Falun gong organ harvesting" "Winnie the Pooh"
- rihegher 7y agoWinnie the Pooh !?
- cerebellum42 7y agoGoogle it. It's a meme about Xi Jinping, who, if you squint your eyes a little, looks like Winnie the Pooh.
- komali2 7y agoXi jinping is angry enough about this that Winnie the Pooh is a banned concept in a nation of over a billion people. That's China /shrug
- Arnavion 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815288
- hmsync 7y agoYes, this project is misleading, in fact, in mainland China to visit foreign websites is not slow, there are only two cases, blocked or not blocked, the former simply can not open, the latter fast enough. There are many surfers in mainland China who buy VPN servers located in such as the US and then have quick access to the blocked websites, indicating that the lines are fast enough. If your site is embedded with a JavaScript code come from the blocked website (a limited number, such as Facebook, Google), it will also cause your page can not to load, just remove the js code and nothing else is wrong. It is not recommended to be misled by this site.
- intellix 7y agoAs a person living in China for a couple of months and primarily working on foreign sites all day and night I can say this is false. Sites are throttled to hell and magically speed up upon connecting to a VPN... And your VPNs are constantly under attack too. It's also highly dependant on the time of day. Foreign sites are near unusable from around 7pm onwards
- hmsync 7y agoMy experience is that if there is a VPS located in the U.S., which only has a static page/file, and there is no CDN, whether it is access from Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, or from mainland China, the speed is similar. Access from mainland China will not be significantly slower. I did this test over and over again. The reason your site 'slows down' may be that your site is blocked, or the embedded Javascript (such as Google Analytics, Adsense, DISQUS) or CSS/Web Font (such as Google fonts) has listed on GFW's blacklist. I feel sorry that my last reply may be not made it clear, I mean that the point of this project is not all the truth (why your site is slow), or even a little misleading. Since running website for several years, I must be honest point out that if the mainland China market make sense to you and you want to keep your website always smooth, the only way is to place the server in mainland China or Japan, all other testing, optimization is a waste of time and money.
- intellix 7y ago