Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China?

Posted by taigeair on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:02PM
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Is there a piece of free proxy software you recommend? I used to have friends in China who gave me one called FreeU24 but that's not working anymore. I have mac but vmware so also linux and xp. I don't have any friends in China now and online searches don't yield much here.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by xxdesmus on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:50PM (#7280475)

DigitalOcean ($5 per month) + https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta... ... done and done. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by k3oni on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:46PM (#7280455)

If you want let me know and i'll setup a VPN account for you. I used to have a VPN business but i shut it down a couple months back.. some of the servers and code is still in production. You can have it for free until you get back.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by mschuster91 on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:16PM (#7280361)

Your best bet is to rent your own server, e.g. OVH, Hetzner or any other host (though it MUST be a real server, so-called VPS or other virtual servers will not work reliably), set up OpenVPN on it and be done.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by taigeair on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:20PM (#7280372)

What if I'm already in China? Seems like a lot of work for a week. I just need to use facebook to get in touch with a supplier. He's not replying to email. That's the main reason.

Thanks for the advice.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by jimmmylost on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:27PM (#7280396)

Can you access psiphone? https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/en.html https://s3.amazonaws.com/e8uh-puy4-4hx1/en/download.html https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/zh.html‎

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by taigeair on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:40PM (#7280443)

Thanks for the help. I'll try psiphone later. Good news is I messaged my supplier on FB already. Basically, I clicked on an ad for a free 7 day proxy trial and $6 a month afterwards. Got it running in a couple minutes. I'm thinking of setting up Your Freedom (proxy service) afterwards. A German friend showed me when I was working there.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for proxy while in China? by xbu on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:30PM (#7280584)

you can email me, it's not convenient to list here, popular vpn service will be blocked by gfw. [email protected]

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