{"id":6299,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"proxies-to-bypass-blocks-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/proxies-to-bypass-blocks-china\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Proxies in China to Bypass Blocks and Filters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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China is something of an oddity amongst first world nations today. They\u2019re one of the most industrialised and advanced nations on Earth in many respects, but there are all sorts of issues with the sustainability, political climate, population, and policies of the country.<\/p>\n

Ignoring the environment, ignoring overpopulation, ignoring politics, there\u2019s one issue that stands out above all the rest when it comes to global commerce; the Internet.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>The Great Firewall of China<\/span><\/h2>\n

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China is notorious for their Great Firewall, known internally as the Golden Shield Project<\/strong><\/a>. This firewall is a country-wide surveillance and censorship program that keeps the average Chinese internet user from seeing anything that could be construed as detrimental to China in some way shape or form.<\/p>\n

This is widely cited as a bad idea by many other nations<\/strong>, and there are a lot of motions and movements to help breach the firewall. Of course, this can be quite dangerous to the people within China. Chinese citizens have been punished in various ways for protests or for illegal breaches of the firewall.<\/p>\n

Given that you\u2019re reading this post on a site aimed at providing proxies, you might guess where I stand on the issue. However, I also have another perspective in mind.<\/p>\n

There are two types of people that can benefit from breaching the Great Firewall; Chinese citizens who want more free and open information, and foreign business people who need unfettered access to keep up with domestic news and information.<\/p>\n

Information is what keeps a business afloat and ahead of the game<\/strong>. Doing business in China can be very beneficial to a wide range of businesses, due to the proliferation of cheap lobar and the Chinese market being the source for a lot of technology.<\/p>\n

However, if you\u2019re trying to do business within China, it can be di\ufb03cult to deal with the restrictions placed on online communications.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>Bypassing the Firewall<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

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The Great Firewall is actually very sophisticated technology. It\u2019s very impressive, given how long it has survived and how thoroughly it blocks some kinds of content<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0That said, it\u2019s still possible to bypass.<\/p>\n

There are a number of di\ufb00erent ways to bypass the Firewall<\/strong>. One of the most popular, but potentially expensive and fickle options, is a VPN. I\u2019m not here to talk about VPNs, though. You can read about them, and the VPNs useful in China, here<\/a>. Be aware, though, that China has been cracking down on VPNs<\/strong><\/a> in recent months, making it harder to use them safely.<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0What\u2019s The Di\ufb00erence Between a Proxy and a VPN?<\/a><\/p>\n

A safer, cheaper, and more flexible method is to use simple web proxies<\/strong>. Proxies aren\u2019t completely infallible \u2013 sometimes they will su\ufb00er from blocks as well \u2013 but you can rotate through proxies a lot faster than you can swap VPNs.<\/p>\n

Before we begin, I do have to say one thing. I\u2019m not and never will advocate using proxies to bypass legal firewalls, or to commit illegal acts. I know that there are a lot of people who want to use proxies to bypass the Great Firewall, but as long as doing so is illegal and can get you or someone else in trouble, I\u2019m not going to recommend doing it. Consider this information for educational and informational purposes only. Always abide by local laws, so long as those laws are in e\ufb00ect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that proxies aren\u2019t a way of making your web tra\ufb03c invisible or safe. Depending on how the Firewall tracks your activity \u2013 I\u2019m not privy to Chinese state secrets \u2013 it\u2019s likely that any traffic you send out to a proxy server will be logged and traced.<\/p>\n

Therefore, a proxy is only useful for fetching information that would normally be blocked; it\u2019s not going to protect you from the repercussions of doing so. In many ways, it\u2019s very much like the American concept of legally protected free speech.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>How Proxies Work<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The concept behind a proxy server is quite simple<\/strong>. You pick a proxy server from a list, based on various bits of information about it.<\/p>\n

The most important information, in this case, is location, followed by latency. Location means the physical location of the proxy server, which becomes the location your traffic comes from. For example, if you pick a proxy server in Ukraine, and choose to browse Facebook, Facebook will see your request as having come from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

This is, in essence, no di\ufb00erent from how the normal Internet works. There\u2019s no direct connection between you and a website unless you\u2019re hosting that website on the same computer you\u2019re using to browse.<\/p>\n

Normally you have to go through your home network router, a street-level router, a router to an internet pipeline, which itself can lead to a backbone, and then from the backbone down through exchange servers and routers to the server on which the website is hosted.<\/p>\n