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Comment by yogorenapan | Hacker News Reader

This is pure bullshit. 164.58 Mbps looks great until you realize that’s only true for sites within China or sites whitelisted by the CCP. It’s obviously 0 Mbps for Google or BBC. For sites that haven’t been reviewed, they throttle the connection. All sites on Cloudflare become unreliable. GitHub is sporadically banned.

Any sane person would much rather live in Germany.

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Sites being blocked is different from internet being slow. Theoretically it's possible for GFW to disappear (very unlikely) or malfunction (more likely) and access to Google or BBC is suddenly much faster. Practically you can use a proper VPN.

I don't disagree with your opinion on which country is better to live in.

> It’s obviously 0 Mbps for Google or BBC

Google's ads business works fine in China. BBC is mostly English so Chinese people don't visit it anyway.

> All sites on Cloudflare become unreliable

This is completely false. Many people rely CF for domain-fronting. Also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-with-jd-clou...

The "164.58 Mbps average speed" is mostly spent on Tencent/Wechat, and the infamous Douyin(tiktok)

I ran a pretty popular site that at its peak got a terabyte a day back a few years ago. One of the most common complaints I got was that cloudflare is unstable in China.

The link you gave says serving Chinese traffic is at request, not for all sites.

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