Hacker News Reader

many are using proxies instead in Hong Kong - like http://mediahint.com. Not sure about mainland. Any ideas what is used on the mainland?

View on HN

Well, at least MediaHint isn't joining users to a botnet like one of the others is.

All it's doing is setting proxy autoconfig to https://mediahint.com/chrome.pac

Doing a bit more digging it seems like they're using several proxies under the name \*.mhgs.co, which looks suspiciously like a whole lot of Linode boxes.

I didn't think the 'net was filtered in HK?

Linode/DO boxes are probably frontending the first part of the proxy chain. The output is probably not going to be a Linode or DO IP at the end.

Linode JP has decent routing to CN afaik.

expressvpn, astril, tian xing (local solution)

cant open this article without vpn, but seems bad.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com