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Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China?

2 points by taigeair 13y ago

Is there a piece of free proxy software you recommend? I used to have friends in China who gave me one called FreeU24 but that's not working anymore. I have mac but vmware so also linux and xp. I don't have any friends in China now and online searches don't yield much here.

mschuster91 13y ago
Your best bet is to rent your own server, e.g. OVH, Hetzner or any other host (though it MUST be a real server, so-called VPS or other virtual servers will not work reliably), set up OpenVPN on it and be done.
- taigeair 13y ago
  What if I'm already in China? Seems like a lot of work for a week. I just need to use facebook to get in touch with a supplier. He's not replying to email. That's the main reason. Thanks for the advice.
  - jimmmylost 13y ago
    Can you access psiphone? https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/en.html https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/en.html https://s3.amazonaws.com/e8uh-puy4-4hx1/en/download.html https://s3.amazonaws.com/e8uh-puy4-4hx1/en/download.html https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/zh.html‎ https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/zh.html‎
    - taigeair 13y ago
      Thanks for the help. I'll try psiphone later. Good news is I messaged my supplier on FB already. Basically, I clicked on an ad for a free 7 day proxy trial and $6 a month afterwards. Got it running in a couple minutes. I'm thinking of setting up Your Freedom (proxy service) afterwards. A German friend showed me when I was working there.
k3oni 13y ago
If you want let me know and i'll setup a VPN account for you. I used to have a VPN business but i shut it down a couple months back.. some of the servers and code is still in production. You can have it for free until you get back.
xxdesmus 13y ago
DigitalOcean ($5 per month) + https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-openvpn-access-server-on-ubuntu-12-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta... ... done and done. :)
xbu 13y ago
you can email me, it's not convenient to list here, popular vpn service will be blocked by gfw. xingjiebu@yahoo.com