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Access Youtube From China

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youtube in ChinaJuly 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 do a lot of talking about Facebook here at Unblock Facebook, but today I though I'd make a featured post for Youtube.  Yes, you can access Youtube from China with a VPN, just like any other site.  Lots of people forget about Youtube, because we have Youku here in China, but there's lots to be had you Youtube that can't be found on Youku.  Ok, mostly the anti-china stuff, but I think in general, Youtube has more stuff than Youku, and it's in English, so it's easier to find. Youku is good for watching free movies, but that's about it. I just don't get Chinese meme – I saw a video of some guy washing his laundry the other day that was supposed to be funny.

This is why we need to access Youtube from China.

I find that video from Youtube is a bit slow with a VPN, but there's nothing you can do about it. It's slow video, or no video.

Actually, when I tried StrongVPN a while back, I was able to access Youtube from China and stream video at a pretty good speed. That's why I always talk about StrongVPN being the fastest VPN I've used. At that time I was using the lite service from 12VPN, back when it was available, and there was a clear difference in speed.

Problem is however, that StrongVPN has been blocked recently. Well, at least I've been unable to access my account for the past week here in Fujian.  Try the link and see what happens.  If not, I'd suggest Astrill or 12VPN.

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StrongVPN Blocked in China…Again

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strongVPN in ChinaI haven't been able to connect to the StrongVPN site for the past week.  I'm living in Fujian – I don't know what the rest of the country is like. I contacted StrongVPN and they maintain that "some areas are having connectivity issues", but I'd like to know how you guys are doing. Of course, if you've already got the VPN downloaded, you shouldn't have any problems.  The problem is that the main site is blocked – so you'll find that the links here to the StrongVPN site aren't working.

Of course, we'll see what happens in the weeks to come. 12VPN and Astrill are still online, no problems here.

Last time I wrote and article called "StrongVPN blocked in China" they sent me an email telling me it wasn't.

So I'll leave it as, in Fujian, Longyan, StrongVPN is blocked. As far as other places go, I don't know.

 

Get it? StrongVPN! haha

You can try the StrongVPN link here

or check out 12VPN and Astrill.

Access Facebook in Vietnam

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access facebook in vietnamLearn How To Access Facebook in Vietnam

It seems that the dust has kind of settled in China recently, and the battle between VPN companies and Chinese Internet censors has come to a standstill for now. You can bet that stuff will continue in the future, but for now, I'd like to help out buds out in Vietnam.

Yes, it seems Internet censorship has hit Vietnam as well. It, for the time being, is nowhere as censored as China, but they're slowly working their way there.  There are many similarity to censorship in China. For example, you can't access Facebook in Vietnam.

Some of the other blocked sites include Youtube, Twitter, blogging sites, Catholic sites, and Anti-communist sites.  With the communist party in power, the seem to be heading the way of China, looking for full control of the Internet.  While in the past, not being able to access Facebook in Vietnam was only for periods deemed "dangerous" or "high-alert", Internet service providers starting at the beginning of this year have been working hard to make it a permanent block.

Also, which it was possible in the past to use different DNS servers to access the site, in recent months it's turned to a full block.  Facebook blocked in Vietnam in the past was achieved by a simple DNS block, or DNS change which means that they just mess up the domain name servers for Facebook.  You used to be able to replace get the right DNS with a few Google tools and free proxies, but again, these are slowly being blocked in China.

unblock facebook vietnamFrom the site I've found on how to access Facebook in Vietnam, I've collected the best three VPN to unblock Facebook in Vietnam.  Check them out – much of the information on prices and usability are the same for China, so you can also check out the site here to compare VPN services.

Again, VPN's are the only real reliable tool to unblock sites anywhere.  Free proxies are always going to get blocked, and unless you're technically skilled at this computer stuff, you're going to have to spend hours trying to figure out what all these blog posts are talking about.  This is a post from 2009 when Facebook was first blocked in Vietnam. Do you have any idea what he's talking about?

"If you have Facebook blocked at work, it could just be a simple cheap DNS block, where the administrator has replaced the DNS entry for facebook.com on your local DNS server.

Unfortunately, changing the DNS server that your local machine uses, may not always be the easiest way around it, as the local DNS server might have entries that are required for local access to intranet etc to work.

Below is a host file modification that will override the modified DNS server, and allow Facebook to work"

I didn't paste the code because

  • 1. It doesn't work now
  • 2. I'm just making a point of how confusing it can be

Normal people need normal solutions. Get the easy fix, and you can be set up to access Facebook in Vietnam in about ten minutes.

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