this is very unreliable, I tested it with 10 sites, 8 are incorrect.
Test if any website is blocked in China
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#12A 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.
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#13Lots of incorrect sites, and no way to differentiate http and https.
Lists that weibo is blocked! http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=weibo.com
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#14It says google.com isn't blocked:
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#15As 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 de…
Lots 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.
Re: Test if any website is blocked in China
#16A 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…
Also, 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.
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#17Countdown timer: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=blockedinchina.net
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#18It says google.com isn't blocked: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.com
Google.cn is blocked though, oddly enough. http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=google.cn
Re: Test if any website is blocked in China
#19I find it hard to believe that sites like whitehouse.gov and barackobama.com aren't blocked.
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#20Right 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?