Re:We Chat, They Watch
by idrios on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:24PM
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Yeah WhatsApp, Facebook, Reddit, Google Hangouts all banned in China. Pretty much anything not owned by a Chinese company, or anything that didn't go through all sorts of hoops to meet Chinese censorship criteria (and even then it's not a guarantee), is banned. Even github was banned until Chinese developers complained that it made their jobs impossible
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I was aware basically every expat used a VPN/roaming cell service. Your home internet is unusable if you don't.
Re:We Chat, They Watch
by seanmcdirmid on Friday May 08, 2020 @07:31AM
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No, VPNs are slow and unreliable. Many expats go without. After paying yearly fees for a couple of VPNs that stopped working a couple of weeks after the fees were paid, I gave up also.
You learn to live inside the Chinese internet. Video sharing sites in China have ripped most everything off of YouTube anyways, and there is less enforcement of copyrights.
VPN's are becoming increasingly difficult to use.