How to get past China's Great Firewall and reach blocked sites? [closed]
How to get past China's Great Firewall and reach blocked sites? [closed]
I wonder if there are any other users who are annoyed like me by the Great Firewall set by the Chinese Government. If so would you please present me an effective way to get on YouTube? Since it's going to be China's flag-day or something, I tried almost all approaches from the internet like ultrasurf , hotspot shield proxy and some other web-based proxies, none worked to me.
"It seems that Freegate (alternative domain) was not mentioned yet? It claims to have released version 6.89 just before the celebrations started. I have never used the program.
[EDIT] The English download page only shows older versions. Deducting an URL from that older versions, only gives me the August 26th 6.88 as the most recent. The Chinese version of the download page seems to confirm that, so the original Chinese version of that website might be much more up to date (and seems to be some ""secure and uncensored Internet portal"" as well). The older version 6.80 can be found on many alternative places, like via CNET or Softpedia. According to a tweet, ""Freegate 6.89 U tunnel beta 4"" is available on 91files.com.
It might only be free when used from within China.
And merely for the archives (as it won't help at this very moment) apparently some project called Haystack is about to be released soon:
Haystack is a new program to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. A software package for Windows, Mac and Unix systems, called Haystack, specifically targets the Iranian government’s web filtering mechanisms.
Similar to Freegate, the program directed against China’s “great firewall,” once installed Haystack will provide completely uncensored access to the internet in Iran while simultaneously protecting the user’s identity. No more Facebook blocks, no more government warning pages when you try to load Twitter, just unfiltered Internet.
Which compares itself to Tor as follows:
Tor focuses on using onion routing to ensure that a user's communications cannot be traced back to him or her, and only focuses on evading filters as a secondary goal. Because Tor uses standard SSL protocols, it is relatively easily to detect and block, especially during periods when the authorities are willing to intercept all encrypted traffic.
On the other hand, Haystack focuses on being unblockable and innocuous while simultaneously protecting the privacy of our users. We do not employ onion routing, though our proxy system does provide a limited form of the same benefit."
"Have you looked at Hotspot Shield or HTTP-Tunnel Client?
Here is some text from the later:
HTTP-Tunnel acts as a socks server, allowing you to use your Internet applications safely despite restrictive firewalls and/or you not be monitored at work, school, goverment and gives you a extra layer of protection against hackers, spyware, ID theft's with our encryption.
The problem with such requests is that the information is available not only to you, but to the opposite side, that tries to restrict you. Anyway, I suggest you to try some vpn server in another country. I use witopia when I need to connect securely from a public place, it's reliable, feature-rich, but not free, so YMMV. The problem with such requests is that the information is available not only to you, but to the opposite side, that tries to restrict you. Anyway, I suggest you to try some vpn server in another country. I use witopia when I need to connect securely from a public place, it's reliable, feature-rich, but not free, so YMMV.
When I was working in China last year, I used a VPN and it worked perfectly. Some existing friends in China rent a VPN server for about £10 a month and it works for them...
