Technical Support and Feedback - FT Basically Useless in China due to Frequent Facebook Calls

Yeah. Unless you are using a VPN that tunnels your traffic through the great "firewall" of China using FT is borderline impossible.

Every page takes ages to load due to frequent Facebook calls. Why there are calls to FB anyway?

Please see what had been discussed and suggested previously:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/technical-issues/1096141-there-screening-ft-china.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/technical-issues/1247893-very-long-page-load-times-when-accessing-ft-internationally.html

More about the Facebook calls in another thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/technical-issues/1071480-consolidated-tech-problems-after-ibs-facebook-connect-implementation-thread.html