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wikipedia.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.
Right 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?
GoldenFrog's Vypr served me well abroad
How was this created?
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.
I typed in https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it removed the 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
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.
wikipedia.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.
They are only blocking the HTTPS version in Shenzhen (not sure if that's the case for other regions).