No, you'd need to purchase the device outside of China and set the locale to something else. In the safe browsing example, you'd just lose it completely becaus

No, you'd need to purchase the device outside of China and set the locale to something else. In the safe browsing example, you'd just lose it completely because it would be replaced by Google's safe browsing list (also used by Chrome and Firefox), which you couldn't connect to from within China. So the end result is the same as turning off safe browsing.