Originally Posted by
tailorgiven
Yeah … with all due respect, I’d say it’s a laughable suggestion for OP as a short-term tourist, not to mention the “more reliable” part.
Without getting to the nitty-gritty, they’ve really enhanced the Great Firewall probably since your last visit. It’s a joke these days to just install V2Ray or Shadowsocks, or any other traditional VPN protocol that GFW bans within ten seconds on a server you see fit and call it a day.
If you’ve currently got a VPN server on a legacy protocol, great. But I’m pretty sure it’s unusable in CN.
It is not a recommendation for a short-term tourist. Of course they would be better off using an off the shelf VPN lol.
My bespoke VPN, set up and maintained by my IT team for my employees in China, works as of March 2023, when I was last in the mainland. The Chinese gov will actually sanction many bespoke VPNs for many reasonably sized businesses.