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>Also, some high end hotels did provide unfettered access to the Internet for some reason, so I guess anyone could go there and browse Facebook for the price of
by qybaz 5y ago
>Also, some high end hotels did provide unfettered access to the Internet for some reason, so I guess anyone could go there and browse Facebook for the price of an expensive coffee.
Practically everybody who is knowledgeable with computers uses a VPN - restrictions are only for "the plebs"
- nothis 5y agoWhenever I read about countries banning sites, people post "just use a VPN, lol". But I wonder: If China really wants to, couldn't they just block VPNs? At the worst, just whitelist a bunch of sites and services and literally block everything else?
- flohofwoe 5y agoTechnically, VPN apps are banned, and VPN usage by individuals is illegal in China. Don't know how much this is enforced though, probably not much.
- netheril96 5y agoThe GFW is evolving. Many VPN protocols or servers that worked in the past works no longer. It’s definitely not as simple as “just run a VPN”, but more like a cat and mouse game.
- RealityVoid 5y agoI think this would make unworkable way too many things. Is it even the internet at that point?
- someotherperson 5y agoThey do. They fingerprint for OpenVPN in real time and block it. In 2018 I was cycling through multiple VPNs at a time. The only thing that worked was Shadowsocks.
- systemvoltage 5y agoCan confirm. I setup a Shadowsocks VPN using Streisand on a DO instance at the Singapore data center. That was the only way to get through the firewall.
- justbaker 5y agoThat’s how I remember a friend advertising Ultrasurf to me — a vpn used in China