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A Facebook proxy server that works

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facebook proxy server that works in ChinaA Breakthrough to the Social Sites Blocked – Finding a Facebook proxy server that works

In the past few years, social networking has drastically changed the lifestyle of many people, especially the youth and young adults of western nations. Facebook as a social networking site has dominated this industry. When I worked in The US, we are allowed to visit Facebook only on lunch time and after job hours. We used a network which blocks some sites and secures others within the internet. I'm sure you've had similar experiences at your jobs.  Almost everyone is aware just how much time you can waste on Facebook. All my friends are on Facebook and if I wanted to chat with  them or check up on them, I had to take a coffee break.  The rules were pretty strict.

Later on however I found out that I could use a Facebook proxy server that works to hide your IP and bypass firewalls at work and school. That way, I was be able to waste time when my boss wasn't around. Most of my workmates in my situation are still using proxies. I've moved to China now, where proxies and virtual private network are also used to evade  firewalls as well.  The security of both can unblock sites in China, just as it did at my workplace.  Trouble is, finding a Facebook proxy server that works in China is pretty tough sometimes.

facebook in chinaFor instance, the internet censorship in China has created so many limits and restrictions to the websites that are supposed to be providing these proxies, it's hard to find where to connect to them. But considering China with the highest number of internet users in the world, it's very likely (and common) that there are still quite a few ways to get a hold of a Facebook proxy server that works in China.  Free proxies were popular back in the day, but too much traffic got them blocked – or that's my theory on it anyway.

The great thing about proxies in China is that you can use them on your phone too. Unlike VPNs which have to be installed, and don't work on phones anyway, you can get one subscription and use the same Facebook proxy server that works here on your phone, laptop, school computer, and anything else really. But even with the Remote Access Service, Pocket Layer Filtering, Single Contact Point and all the other security features of proxies you will still find some limitations – one of these limitations is that you won't be able to access American or UK content like with a virtual IP address through a VPN.

The only Facebook proxy server that works in China (that I know of) is Securitales. I had long given up on proxies until I came across them.  The don't seem to advertise much, unlike a lot of the other VPN services out there, but as I've tried it myself, I can honestly say that it not only works, but it works like magic.  With no installation necessary, you just have to go to the Securitales site and you can get started with your FREE TRIAL in under a minute!

securitales web based proxyGo to www.securitales.com


If you're not up for checking out Securtiales, then you might want to schedule in another hour of research to find something.  Oh yeah, and Securitales is only 6$ a month.  I challenge you to find something cheaper.

 

yesterdays post

China’s internet “disrupted”

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Here's a link to a very interesting article I read today. It's about the Chinese Internet being disrupted. Ok, I know this is normal. But what I didn't know is that in some universities, there are Internet connections that are not blocked by the great firewall. They made an interesting point, saying that The Chinese government realized the need for an intellectual elite, and therefore allows many university students the ability to surf "the western Internet".

However, just yesterday many universities all over the countries experience problems with their un-firewalled Internet.  Google and Gmail wasn't working.

It also mentioned something about hitting "critical mass" for the amount of blocked web sites requested.

Anyway, I won't recite the article, you can read it HERE.

It's pretty long though. If you're not interested, I pretty much summarized it.

Problems with Gmail in China

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China's at it again. I just can't get on my Gmail account without using my VPN. Seriously, block it or not. I'm tired of this temptation to access my gmail in China without the VPN…. and I wait, and wait, and wait. Until the stupid thing tells me to load it in Basic HTML.  I'm seriously thinking of switching to Yahoo one of these days. If only Gmail and Google weren't so damn cool.  Anyone else having problems with Gmail in China?

 

I couldn't access Astrill today either. I don't know if this is a permanent or temporary thing.

Can’t access Gmail

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July 2011 – You'll notice a lot of links that aren't working here on the site.  It seems that in recent weeks, The Great Firewall has had some serious updates, and many of the VPNs featured/reviewed are blocked (at least the sites are). This may not be for the entire country, but at least here in Fujian, many have been blocked.

Securitales is a Web Based Service that is not blocked.  A web based service is different from a VPN, but can also unblock sites in China.  The advantage of a Web based service over a VPN is that you don't have to download anything onto your computer. It works on iPhone, iPad and other smart phones as well as laptop and desktop operating systems like Mac, Windows, and Linux.

The most important thing right now is that it's NOT BLOCKED.

Check out Securitales at www.securitales.com.

I don't know about you guys, but I can't access Gmail, or Google for that matter!  I'm not going to say that the whole of China can't access Gmail, but I've got two internet access points here, one at the office, and one at home.  Either both are on the fritz or China's at it again.  I'm using Firefox at home, and anything I type into the Google search bar gets shot down with a "the server request is taking too long"..but this may be a problem with my personal computer – I've got more viruses than the average person.  The school computer is generally virus free but I think they restored it from the 90's so that's nothing to get excited about either.  Regardless, I'm SOOOOO glad that I have a vpn, because without it i'd have to start using Yahoo for searching.

That's the funny thing, is that I can't access my Gmail account, but Yahoo and Yahoo mail is not  a problem. I started using it to search the other day, and didn't realize how slow Google actually was.  Have you heard about "throttling"?  It's where they limit bandwidth of an internet connection, in this case to make the site slow on purpose.  China does this when they can't block a site completely, but want to discourage users from using the site.  They used to do this with Wikipedia a few years ago, and they do this with Google and Google pages now.  As a webmaster, I use things like Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics.  All blocked in China. Or slow to the point of being useless.