China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February

Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:46AM (#14742296)

VPNs still work; ExpressVPN gives good results. Although I usually just forward gmail to outlook for the time being and will just use that for the weeks I am there.

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by yorwba on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:04AM (#14742628)

FWIW, I have been able to access imap.googlemail.com from all Chinese networks I have tried so far. However, the first few times, Google blocked the attempt and I had to use a VPN to log into my Google account and whitelist the access.

This highlights another issue that makes internet access in China inconvenient: Many websites flag Chinese IP addresses by default, presumably because they couldn't handle the spam otherwise.

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by baybal2 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:37AM (#14742982)

The thing is that they block Gmail MX from time to time. Don't use google mail for work there

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:47PM (#14746245)

No I forward all to Outlook.com and send from there as well. Sucks but works.

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