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Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Experience the Chinese Internet From Outside? (fffff.at)
dryriver writes: In 2008, a bunch of crafty developers created a Firefox plugin called China Channel. It apparently allowed you to connect to a proxy server in China, and experience the -- heavily censored and filtered -- internet as Chinese citizens experienced it back then. The nearly decade old plugin doesn't seem to work anymore. My modern Firefox browser couldn't install it. So the question: is there a way to surf the internet as if you were inside China, and experience for yourself how much of the experience is censored or filtered? It would be interesting to experience firsthand what the Great Firewall of China lets you see of the free world and internet as we know it in 2017, and what it does not.
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Having experienced the Chinternet for 5 years, I know it's very frustrating. For whatever reason zlib's homepage was blocked for counter revolutionary content.
Just install his hosts file tool with the China settings, and Bob's your uncle.
.....preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=china+proxy
Only Nixon could go to China.
Yep, they even own all the moderation points.
It would look like AOL before the Internet, except AOL without anything that was good, insightful, or interesting.
You can still visit /., guardian, and English only part of BBC
From Shanxi
The big commercial parts of the internet are just as heavily censored as China ever was. And what a coincidence, the censors unironically call themselves Maoists and have connections to Huawei, Tencent, Beijing Borch, etc, except for the few that are Islamists from the SAAR Foundation.
And look at this dream team: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
I count three Wikipedia board members, one of the people responsible for the Mattress Girl rape hoax, nine or so Democratic Party activists, an executive from the New York Times, one of the Daily Show's executives, and they are all run by a board member of Twitter who used to run Pearson, the big educational company.
...why would you want to?
The only thing that makes me angry about jews is that Mel Brooks still hasn't given us another Spaceballs movie.
#DeleteFacebook
Just try one of the nations that keep all internet data for a few years.
Keeping every site visited and isp accounts linked.
At any time over many months a gov or trusted contractor can go back and find any or all users, their IM's, phone calls, forum use or web sites visited.
The next step will be the file names downloaded, language used in search terms and a demand for a gov crypto key for big brand search sites and telcos.
We can see SJW trying to alter search results just like China too.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I would like to see another Blazing Saddles. Classic.
why?
Modify your hosts file so everything in the block list points to 0.0.0.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Enjoy your visit! Now don't let it happen to your country.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Internal Chinese internet is extremely fast, you can easily stream 4K video, search results load instantly. The majority of people in China think the internet is very good. Now when it comes to foreign websites or almost all websites outside of china without a vpn it is nightmarishly slow. Even non blocked websites run slowly, especially at peak times of the day when people are using the contested international links. Local torrents including every tv show / movie will download in a few minutes even if they are 6gb or more
Blocked websites are not particularly interesting you simply get a "the website unexpectedly disconnected" message or something similar as the GFW computers send a disconnection request.
The good side of things is that 100mb down/4mb up costs 1400rmb per year (200 usd) and if your in shanghai they've started rolling out gigabit internet. Makes life good for downloading torrents.
Still waiting for hitler on ice, too!
I lived there from 2011 to 2016. You really, really don't want that experience. Even with a VPN it sucked, because half the time the VPN wouldn't work. It's not just that Google is blocked; it's that Google CDN that a lot of sites use is blocked.
--Jim (me)
There are list of Chinese proxy servers on line. One is http://cn-proxy.com/ You can get it in English by using Google Translate https://translate.google.com/t...
If your current version of firefox won't install the plugin, then install an older version of firefox.
Currently living in China as an expat and it's surprisingly easy to live with the level of censorship in place here. As mentioned by another, Google CDN is blocked which makes some sites inaccessible. The only google related service I've found to work here is translate.google.cn. The most annoying is aspect is not being able to search for things via Google, but having to rely on Bing or other accessible search engines. Almost all mainstream western social media are blocked, with the exception of LinkedIn which works without any issues. Non-western sites like vk.com seem to work fine. Most international messaging apps are also blocked in China, which isn't much of an issue since everyone here uses WeChat (or Weixin in Chinese) which serves not just as a messaging app and micro blogging service but also as a mobile payment platform with a plethora of integrated serves such as paying your utility bills, ordering taxis, buying train and flight tickets, booking hotels, etc. once you link a Chinese debit or credit card. It also integrates the option to have membership cards and related benefits linked to your WeChat account. That coupled with Skype for work-related video calls should cover most people's needs when here. Some news media (mainly American ones) such as bloomberg, wall street journal and the economist are blocked, while others like financial times, usa today, the washington post and los angeles times works fine. In the cases where you do run into issues, VPN services like ExpressVPN and Astrill VPN does the trick. Just make sure to get them before entering the country. Alternatively get the ExpressVPN plug-in for Chrome if that can cover your needs.
Turn off you monitor. Bam. You are even BETTER off this way.
Prepare a big bowl of dog soup on your coal-fired stove, and then head on over to alibaba.com
It's simple
I talk Madarin lessons from a chick in Beijing (via italki.com) using skype. The video is always shit. The HILARIOUS part is that this dumb chinc will blame MY CONNECTION as the problem.
No Rainy, my 60Mbps cable line is running great to the rest of the world. The shit hole you live in is the issue.
Like the normal internet, you can navegate the internet inside china and use google translate to translate the website, i used to enter chinese military and technological websites a lot.
The FlyVPN service will let you connect to a lot of different servers in China and experience what it's like.
We use it to test our path out of China for various mobile games as they prepare to launch with our partners in China.
David Whatley
To experience the Chinese Internet from the inside, sign up for CenturyLink DSL Internet access in Yakima, WA.
Just unlucky your router lacks a drop outgoing shit rule.
Where do I find a VPN to experience the North Korea intranet?
If the pry-minister gets her way.
This perpetual motion machine Lisa made is a joke, it just keeps getting faster and faster. - Homer
From my travels I have experienced there is no uniform Great Firewall og China. Level of access to sites depends on what City or Province you might find yourself in. Also it depends on the Telco. So I doubt you will have much luck trying to 'experience' anything similar from abroad. The level og openness in a particular place also changes from day to day. Have not figured out the deal yet
There are no praises to the Dearest Leader to be found there.
Start learning Chinese, first.
99.999% of Chinese sites are in some Chinese language.
Then move to China.
Or ask a Chinese friend to install something like TeamViewer.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
There are plenty of Proxy Servers behind the Great Fire Wall find one
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
The only thing that makes me angry about jews is circumcised cocks are gross.
I don't want to download the engine, just give me the link for the China Great Firewall HOSTS file. I would download it even if it's around 3TB in size. Just want to feel the Great Firewall.
#!/bin/sh
# Chinese Internet Enabler
sudo iptables -F
sudo iptables -P OUTPUT -j REJECT
Spin up a VPN server from inside of China. There are plenty of those services and you'll be able to browse as if you are in China.
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised by mmell
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg
I've never tried to belittle (APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon
I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat
* My code's recommended & hosted by Malwarebytes' hpHosts!
APK
P.S.=> See subject & Mr. Steven Burn of malwarebytes VERIFIED my code (mine/original) & when you get our /. peers to say THAT about YOUR non-existent work? It'll never happen from a "ne'er-do-well" UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous JEALOUS lying KNOB like you... apk
Intranet China is ok fast (100Mbps) and relatively cheap (~US$30/month). Just don't try to compare it with S. Korea, Hong Kong or Singapore where their Internet is lighting speed (1Gbps) and cheap (US$30/month, Hong Kong).
The biggest problem in China is that there is not much non-Chinese content within and if you perform a search using Yahoo or Bing, many of the web sites returned are not as helpful as those searches performed on Google, and there is a high chance that some of the results returned are blocked or affected by the GFW. Affected I mean with those relying on Google Analytics, they will either not load at all, or take ages to load. So, VPN is your pal.
If you know Chinese, there are much more fun playing inside the GFW. Many apps and web sites provide wonderful services for content sharing, micro-blogging, micro-payment and video chats. I could imaging the day when I leave China, I'd definitely want a VPN back!
Having said that, Search is a totally unique experience. Whatever you search in Chinese using the Chinese search engines like Baidu.com, it almost always ended up with 10,000+ search results with exactly the same content but different layout. Try to perform a search on brewing Chinese tea, for example, all the links returned from the search engine would bring you to to different web sites telling you exactly the same thing with exactly the same wordings, even with the same errors (if there are). Simply amazing!