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Test if any website is blocked in China
- ParadisoShlee 13y agoCountdown timer: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=blockedinchina.net http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=blockedinchina.net
- primelens 13y agoI tried github several times and every time it fails to load at least for a couple of the places but it does load intermittently from all of the servers. I wonder what that means - is it being throttled so that it loads slowly? The same doesn't happen with other websites - for example, my website consistently shows ok from all servers.
- idupree 13y agoI typed in https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it removed the https:// https:// from my query. http and https are not the same URL, and in particular may have different "blocked" statuses! Also FYI: it gave an error when I entered this HN submission, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6666214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6666214
- cplat 13y agoIt seems to give an error if the URL contains a path.
- johncole 13y agoYeah, I think the paths are blocked. One more reason to use the above options given. I tested a path out and it worked on http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
- gaoshan 13y agoAs someone who travels to China fairly frequently I can say I've found this site to be inconsistent. That said, different locations within China have inconsistently differing levels of blockage (for instance, you can access many more places from within the greater Shanghai area than from within nearby Hangzhou and can find differences in what is available between Hangzhou and Beijing) so I think it is difficult to definitely state that this or that site is completely unavailable from anywhere within China.
- tnuc 13y agoThis is because of the different service providers and the decentralization that is applied from within the government. It leads to inconsistency but it stops some of the mistakes that result from an overly centralized government.
- jacalata 13y agoLots of it is applied at province level, as I understand it. There is not 'one firewall'. That's probably why this site gives you a result for five different provinces.
- ero5004 13y agoHow was this created?
- scottydelta 13y agoactually what blockedinchina.net does it, it takes the website URl from form and query it from a system whose internet is tunneled to a China based server. So the qurey reply is based on internet on that particular server(internet on a particular computer or ISP in China), hence this might not be reliable.
- ttflee 13y agoI typed www.facebook.com. Amazingly, it was the response page itself that got blocked(, TCP reset to be precise). Perhaps the Great Fire Wall read 'www.facebook.com' as a substring in url, and subsequently killed it.
- amerika_blog 13y agoWe're not blocked, according to this. Score one for the Chinese.
- FajitaNachos 13y agoCompletely off topic - It drives me crazy when the enter key doesn't submit forms. Especially one liners.
- ausjke 13y agothis is very unreliable, I tested it with 10 sites, 8 are incorrect.
- b6 13y agoA page like this might be really useful, but it's very difficult for it to tell the whole story, and the story is always changing. In my experience, China's government uses many methods to sabotage the Internet, and the methods used against specific services change very often. I believe change so often because it's more disruptive. Some services seem "just plain" blocked, as in the connections are being sniped by RST or something. Others (e.g., Google services like Maps) are in what I believe to be a "degrade" mode, where perhaps half the page is allowed to load, but not enough to be functional, in order to make the service look broken and to be more annoying to the user. I met many people in China who hated Google services because they were so slow and/or defective--due entirely to the sabotage. They also seem to mess up a lot of stuff via DNS. They also seem to disrupt VPN. They also inject ads into page content, e.g., ads in the lower right corner of espn.com or whitehouse.gov.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoAlso, each Chinese ISP is quite different in what is blocked: even if their are some popular givens (facebook, youtube, twitter), there is some flexibility with respect to imugr, wikimedia, and Google PLUS. > I met many people in China who hated Google services because they were so slow and/or defective--due entirely to the sabotage. If you call up your ISP and tell them you can't get to Facebook, they'll tell you it must be Facebook's fault. The government won't admit to blocking or interfering with these websites...the GFW technically doesn't exist.
- nikisweeting 13y agoLots of incorrect sites, and no way to differentiate http and https. Lists that weibo is blocked! http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=weibo.com http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=weibo.com
- jfoster 13y agoIt says google.com isn't blocked: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.com http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.com
- andrewfong 13y agoGoogle.cn is blocked though, oddly enough. http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.cn http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.cn
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- olalonde 13y agoGoogle.cn isn't blocked but it's only a page that basically redirects to Google.com.hk.
- TMBest 13y agoActually, google is blocked sometimes, including .com, .cn, .hk. If you search some sensitive words, google will be blocked for a period of time.
- xw 13y agoI find it hard to believe that sites like whitehouse.gov and barackobama.com aren't blocked.
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- baby 13y agoRight on time since I'm going there for Christmas holidays. I used to use HotspotShield as a VPN when I was in Beijing but that was 5 years ago, anyone knows a good VPN right now?
- lvturner 13y agoLiving in China - Astrill, they have a variety of different protocols and endpoints, some working better than others on any given day.
- skeletonjelly 13y agoGoldenFrog's Vypr served me well abroad
- scottydelta 13y agoIf I were you, I would just set up an ec2 instance on Amazon and then tunnel my traffic through ssh. Why rely on some VPN??
- kalleboo 13y agoSmartphones.
- forktheif 13y agotaiwan.gov.tw just causes an error message. Not sure if that means it's blocked, or the site doesn't like the address
- johnpowell 13y agoIt says one of my sites isn't blocked when other tools I have tried says it is. I actually want it to be blocked in China.
- pseingatl 13y agowikipedia.org was unreachable in Shanghai one week ago whether blocked or not. Wikipedia is incredibly useful, I can understand blocking individual articles (as they do in Saudi Arabia, for example) but not the site as a whole.
- PakG1 13y agoWe'll have to see how this goes! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435993
- andymcsherry 13y agohttp://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html seems to be a much better resource. The latency for successful requests is usually pretty high, and blockedinchina.net returns too quickly for me to think it's accurate.
- scottydelta 13y agoyou are right, this is because the website you mentioned makes use of more than one server based on different region in china.
- scottydelta 13y agoactually what blockedinchina.net does it, it takes the website URl from form and query it from a system whose internet is tunneled to a China based server. So the qurey reply is based on internet on that particular server(internet on a particular computer or ISP in China), hence this might not be reliable.
- tiatia 13y agoOne question: Is Tor now totally blocked in China? Tor does not work here for me, even with bridges. Any words of wisdom? Otherwise: A lot of useful comments here already. - what is blocked today, maybe blocked or not blocked tomorrow. E.g. I could not make my CC payment yesterday. After some hours, the site worked. I doubt it was the banks fault. - Different providers seem to block different sites - Many VPN are blocked, https often does not work (e.g. with wikipedia) The blockedinchina.net seems a little bit like snake oil with very little reliability.
- be5invis 13y agoNo, you should use Alibench or 17ce. They have many servers to test accessibility.