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Comment by jewbacca | Hacker News Reader

> But now you have to use like 6 layers of VPN, change patterns of navigation

Please explain further.

Since Xi Jinping took power, the government has stepped up their internet censorship efforts, banning many well known VPN. According to some accounts, they also utilize some sort of dynamic filter to determine if you are accessing censored content or using non-blocked VPN.

How exactly they do that is unknown, but the fact is, it's much harder to visit censored websites now than before.

The otherbl commentor was probably using OpenVPN which is easy to target.

Most other protocols continue to work well as long as your provider is not being targeted.

You may also have problems if you're connecting through corporate firewall. I won't name a certain Chinese well-known corporation using certain McAfee shitware that managed to block ExpressVPN and VyprVPN within a week for me, making it significantly more difficult to do my job there.

If you are flying in through HK get a china unicom hk cross border SIM. Somewhat expensive data but a life saver in those situations since there is no firewall.

I did for the second half of the stay. Absolute lifesaver.

For me, most commercial VPN services have worked fine.

PPTP VPNs are blocked/flaky on mobile data plan connections (maybe by the phone company), but no real issues on wifi.

On 3/4G, Shadowsocks works perfectly and corporate VPN (Cisco/IPSec) have no issues.

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