bypassing chinese firewall?

I'll be in china for a month visiting family. at the same time, I wish to check my email regularly, communicate with my lady friend(s), and apply for jobs while I'm overseas. are there any proxy services or something that would allow me to check gmail, surf facebook, go on strava (exercise app/website), and look for jobs on company websites?

 

Your best bet is a VPN service.

https://greycoder.com/best-vpn-china/

 

If you can find a OpenVPN service with IPv6 transport, and your connection in China has IPv6 support, use that.

Otherwise, get multiple VPN services with different protocols, prepare to switch among them.

 

China has been blocking OpenVPN. Vpn.ac mentioned in that article has specific methods to hide the traffic.

From VPN.ac

 

Standard OpenVPN connection has been working smoothly for me in the last two years from multiple ISPs, but it must be IPv6 transport.

We do use a modified OpenVPN server with an extra obfuscation layer for the office.

 

Chinese Firewall, Tricky Trap.

Must push both ends of network together to extricate oneself from trap.

Spoiler

Best to not put oneself in Offense of Chinese Firewall in the first place...

Does it not seem a bad idea to circumvent the intended blocking of foreign sites while a guest of China?

Perhaps they won't like it and single you out for prosecution. It's not so unlikely. Why risk it?

 

i suppose the main thing I need is gmail, so I've created a yahoo address (which I believe is unblocked) and have my gmail forwarding to my yahoo. Will this work in China?

other stuff I would like to have access to are university websites, job boards like indeed, company websites. Can I reasonably assume that these will be unblocked?


as for social media, I could use this app called we chat.

 

Yahoo is not IP/DNS blocked for now, but the more exposed you're the more likely you'll trigger some content filter.

No. The IP/DNS blocking is made somewhat random on purpose. Then there is also the content filter.

 

I'd rather pay the 7 bucks for Vpn.ac and make sure. That article was just updated on the 25th so who knows what China has been up to with the GFW

 

I signed up for VPN.ac myself after reading reviews... I must say, I never expected 75Mbps on an OpenVPN ECC, AES 256-bit VPN!

 

I was using purevpn last year when I was back to visit some families. it worked fine.

 

PureVPN is slow in America, I can't imagine what it would be like in China.

This comment on the VPN page I shared gives a little breakdown on various services as well and he lives in China.

 

I am a mandarin translator and I have to conduct a lot of searches on Google.

Yes a VPN is your best choice. I am using LeiSu (previously Pirate Boat) and it's quite fast and reliable. Use its browser plugin module. A standard along app won't work, to my experience.

 

have tried bolehvpn?