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Semi-tangential, but many Chinese tech companies just have a perma-VPN company wide and use GSuite and Google search by default. And Hacker News is a tech-leadi
by xster 7y ago
Semi-tangential, but many Chinese tech companies just have a perma-VPN company wide and use GSuite and Google search by default. And Hacker News is a tech-leading forum (though it's not that big of a thing in China AFAIK).
- wannaduo 7y agoActually，I work for one of the most well known Chinese Internet companies. Our company’s VPN is blocked by HN
- dang 7y agoHN doesn't block VPNs. What are you observing that leads you to say that?
- yorwba 7y agoDon't you ban IP addresses in some cases? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20IP%20banned&sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20IP%20banned&sort=byD... suggests you do. That could result in effectively banning a VPN.
- dang 7y agoWe do, but not usually heavily used ones, and the VPNs we're aware of use lots of IPs.
- xster 7y agoDid you mean that HN isn't accessible through VPN? i.e. it only tunnels domains selectively?
- stef25 7y agoThe VPN blocks HN, not the other way round
- solipsism 7y agoAlways been curious -- why is this allowed by the Chinese government? If people feel comfortable using such a VPN, they must have some reasonable belief that the Chinese government doesn't care that much about it, right?