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While I was reading the article I thought that this kind of issues don't apply only to China. If people focus on workarounds instead of addressing problems they get burned when the workarounds don't work anymore.

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Yes. It's a kind of technical debt. If you are offered a job in china, you can't just assume that you'll be able to work around all the gfw problems; even your work might be forced to give up their unfiltered connection eventually.

Any other place that has similar restrictions must be treated the same.

I live part of the year in a country that regularly filters the internet. I've had no issue so far using VPNs, but I prefer to tunnel directly through the PCs I have running 24/7 in my US office. Would tunneling work in China or does the Great Firewall prevent that too? I'm curious because there may come a day when I need better workarounds myself.

It’s pretty sophisticated at detecting tunnels, but presumably still possible to evade. This post was on HN recently:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...

If you're talking about SSH tunneling then, no, it wouldn't work. My experience is that SSH tunnels get throttled (all the way down to zero) pretty soon after you send significant bandwidth through them.

most of my browsing are done with tunneling and it got filtered 3-4 times in the pass year. No biggie, I just redeploy another vps with a new IP from snapshot and the problem usually goes away.

Shadowsocks definitely works too.

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