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Grim_Reaver
United States86 Posts
I've been trying a few different proxifiers and anonymizers, and they either don't work, require payment, or are already blocked by the Chinese gov't (I'm already in Beijing). I've tried Freegate, and it won't open now that I'm in China. My usual proxifier is hidemyass.com, but that's blocked. I downloaded the Maxthon browser, which supposedly has built-in functionality to browse anonymously, but I'm not sure how to activate it. Any of you Chinese netizens wanna help me out? Da xiexie ni!   | ||
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
i use my university's VPN, all VPNs tend to work well for consistently getting around the great firewall. sadly, i cant share my uni acct, sorry =/ in general though, yeah, vpns are your best bet, proxies arent good. | ||
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GeZZa07
Australia75 Posts
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TossFloss
Canada606 Posts
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Grim_Reaver
United States86 Posts
I've been trying to make my university's VPN work for me (I'm not sure why it's causing me so much difficulty..sigh). It's kind of my work in progress while I look for an easier option. Tuna, I live in Wudaokou district near Beida, which is like the other side of the city haha. What are you doing in China? | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
Otherwise there are great VPNs for 5$ a month, which you could easily spend since life in China is really cheap. | ||
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
On January 17 2011 22:14 Grim_Reaver wrote: heavymist and TOR are both blocked, but thanks for the suggestions. I've been trying to make my university's VPN work for me (I'm not sure why it's causing me so much difficulty..sigh). It's kind of my work in progress while I look for an easier option. Tuna, I live in Wudaokou district near Beida, which is like the other side of the city haha. What are you doing in China? oh yeah i've stayed at wudaokou before :D my dad has a habit of buying apartments in beijing >>;; im taking a quarter off of uni (ill be at uni this summer) to spend time with my parents and im taking chinese classes at mandarin house, which is just a random nonuni chinese program. ill be at tianjin with my maternal granddad over chinese new year's, but i'll be free a lot after. lets party it up at worker's stadium / the nightlife area :D | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4415 Posts
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TossFloss
Canada606 Posts
On January 17 2011 22:14 Grim_Reaver wrote: heavymist and TOR are both blocked, but thanks for the suggestions. I've been trying to make my university's VPN work for me (I'm not sure why it's causing me so much difficulty..sigh). It's kind of my work in progress while I look for an easier option. Tuna, I live in Wudaokou district near Beida, which is like the other side of the city haha. What are you doing in China? Is TOR blocked or just the client download? | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
On January 17 2011 23:03 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: be careful what you eat there they still use human excrement to fertilize vegetables/fruit wouldnt work if the said humans ate any meat, see: science plus people are too squeamish in general, if the human population cultivated our appetite for insects, we'd have much less of a hunger problem anywhere | ||
FlaShFTW
United States10399 Posts
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FuRong
New Zealand3089 Posts
I'm not sure entirely how it works, but it somehow scrambles your IP so that the Chinese firewall can't detect where it is coming from, and you can get around the wall. Unfortunately, it does slow down your connection by quite a lot, so if you use it to watch videos on Youtube etc then they will take a long time to load. The way I used it was just to turn it on before I went to the blocked site I wanted to visit (usually Facebook/Blogger/Youtube) and then switch it off again once I was done. If this doesn't sound like a good option then you'll probably have to pay for a VPN, that's what a lot of expats in China do. | ||
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Grim_Reaver
United States86 Posts
But thanks for the tip on getting the newest version of Freegate, whoever that was! It's super slow, but at least I can get onto tumblr and update my friends at home about how my semester is going. I don't know if I dare trying to upload pictures through it though... Tuna, I'd be down for some partying. That's sort of all I did for all of orientation anyway. Now that I'm in intense Chinese language immersion, I'm not really having any time to do any partying, (not even supposed to be using English right now). I just can't get over the 4 yuan tsingdaos at 600 mL..haha. Still haven't worked up the courage to work on some baijiu yet. Thanks everyone for the responses! Freegate 7.06 is the inexpensive, albeit slow way to go. | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On January 18 2011 00:58 Grim_Reaver wrote: The website to get the TOR client was blocked. But thanks for the tip on getting the newest version of Freegate, whoever that was! It's super slow, but at least I can get onto tumblr and update my friends at home about how my semester is going. I don't know if I dare trying to upload pictures through it though... Tuna, I'd be down for some partying. That's sort of all I did for all of orientation anyway. Now that I'm in intense Chinese language immersion, I'm not really having any time to do any partying, (not even supposed to be using English right now). I just can't get over the 4 yuan tsingdaos at 600 mL..haha. Still haven't worked up the courage to work on some baijiu yet. Thanks everyone for the responses! Freegate 7.06 is the inexpensive, albeit slow way to go. Haha glad to see that it worked for you ! It's a little slow but you'll get used to it. I recommend to use Auto-proxy, it's a Firefox add-on. It enables Freegate only for the blocked websites, and disables it for the others. Which means only Facebook / Blogspot / Tumblr will be slow, and you can browse other website at normal speed at the meantime. Unfortunately for beer amateurs, there's been a shitty trend in China, or a genius marketing strategy should I say. The "draft" or "light" beer have slowly replaced the standard beers. It contains less alcohol, it's plain, and it's sold almost twice as expensive as the standard beer. Even the standard Tsingtao that used to be 4.2° is now only 3.2°. If you wanna drink the "original" version of it, you need to buy the small bottles that are sold 7rmb. So basically marketing people were smart enough to produce a lesser quality beer, sell it a lot more expensive with no one noticing. I missed when I first came to Beijing 6 years ago and that the "real" Tsingtao was only 2rmb, I even drank it for breakfast T_T Sorry about that beer rant  You can try the baijiu, but I've never been able to swallow it, even when it was very expensive baijiu, *supposed to be good* Be careful of the very cheap drinks in some pubs, they're selling fake alcohol that sometimes contain methanol (highly toxic). Enjoy your semester :D | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
On January 18 2011 02:40 endy wrote: Haha glad to see that it worked for you ! It's a little slow but you'll get used to it. I recommend to use Auto-proxy, it's a Firefox add-on. It enables Freegate only for the blocked websites, and disables it for the others. Which means only Facebook / Blogspot / Tumblr will be slow, and you can browse other website at normal speed at the meantime. Unfortunately for beer amateurs, there's been a shitty trend in China, or a genius marketing strategy should I say. The "draft" or "light" beer have slowly replaced the standard beers. It contains less alcohol, it's plain, and it's sold almost twice as expensive as the standard beer. Even the standard Tsingtao that used to be 4.2° is now only 3.2°. If you wanna drink the "original" version of it, you need to buy the small bottles that are sold 7rmb. So basically marketing people were smart enough to produce a lesser quality beer, sell it a lot more expensive with no one noticing. I missed when I first came to Beijing 6 years ago and that the "real" Tsingtao was only 2rmb, I even drank it for breakfast T_T Sorry about that beer rant You can try the baijiu, but I've never been able to swallow it, even when it was very expensive baijiu, *supposed to be good* Be careful of the very cheap drinks in some pubs, they're selling fake alcohol that sometimes contain methanol (highly toxic). Enjoy your semester :D Haven't been able to get auto-proxy to work for me yet but I'll keep on trying. It's annoying because I don't know if it's my proxy settings or the GFW which is giving me errors... | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On January 21 2011 11:43 madnessman wrote: Haven't been able to get auto-proxy to work for me yet but I'll keep on trying. It's annoying because I don't know if it's my proxy settings or the GFW which is giving me errors... Which proxy are you using in combination with auto-proxy ? | ||
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
VPN is like less than $5 a month and the speed is quite decent. I use VPN to surf blocked website as well as watch GSL(Korean stream) and I am totally happy with it. | ||
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Rflcrx
503 Posts
I will be in Beijing soon too. Isn't there a little TL Beijing community?! | ||
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Jetzki
21 Posts
On January 18 2011 02:40 endy wrote: Unfortunately for beer amateurs, there's been a shitty trend in China, or a genius marketing strategy should I say. The "draft" or "light" beer have slowly replaced the standard beers. It contains less alcohol, it's plain, and it's sold almost twice as expensive as the standard beer. Even the standard Tsingtao that used to be 4.2° is now only 3.2°. If you wanna drink the "original" version of it, you need to buy the small bottles that are sold 7rmb. So basically marketing people were smart enough to produce a lesser quality beer, sell it a lot more expensive with no one noticing. I missed when I first came to Beijing 6 years ago and that the "real" Tsingtao was only 2rmb, I even drank it for breakfast T_T Sorry about that beer rant You can try the baijiu, but I've never been able to swallow it, even when it was very expensive baijiu, *supposed to be good* Be careful of the very cheap drinks in some pubs, they're selling fake alcohol that sometimes contain methanol (highly toxic). Enjoy your semester :D I can't believe it, was drinking a beer as I read this and you're right... my beer is only 3.6!!! I'm in Shanghai by the way. What servers do you guys play sc2 on? | ||
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