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ssh -p 443 -D worked as charm , but I didnt used it on phone , unsure harmattan support socksified browser by default , may need extra cli tools ...

Air was fresh and weather perfect :-)

I loved to stay in shanghai this past week , and found out there our community may have a Chinese speaking section too what do you think of that ? I'll try to kickstart a forum thread for that...

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http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/23/china-vpn-crackdown/

https://twitter.com/finmedia/status/...279298/photo/1

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FYI, Last month I was in China, I used Reindeer and HidemeVPN on my Android Tablet and VPNme on BB10.

Reindeer is the quickest but slightly expensive, but support cross-device using same account. HidemeVPN is cheaper but only one device and slightly slower. VPNme is super slow and not cheap but it's the only one I found on BB10.
Good luck! (Gmail on phones was blocked last month, and outlook was reported not running well last week.)

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Yea I've been confirmed that lot of VPN are blocked in cn ...

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You're going to have a hard time connecting. You should just buy a new phone, an iphone or samsung note 5. It's not cheap, but it's worth it.

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No, not really :D

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would like to know why ?

thanks

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Well, what @MiaHeinrichs suggested AFAIU is that "getting a new phone would make it easier to connect" (while in China)

That makes absolutely no sense? Why would it make any difference whether you have a nice Maemo/Meego/SFOS device or some silly iPhone or Android?

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I guess his point is there are many "ready to use" VPN apps on Android or apple store, unlike Maemo/MeeGo/Sailfish the user has to set up himself.

But to be honest that doesn't make iJunk or Samsung "worth the money". Especially for iDontCare series, how come an ugly stupid hard to use teenager toy "worth the money" while it's overpriced exaggerately? (Most around £700) :D

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In China, facebook, instagram, google, twitter also is blocked, the chinese use their own product like wechat (Whatsapp), weibo(twitter) etc.

However, In Hong Kong, all is worked there.

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shadowsocks still works.

However currently the overall international bandwidth is severely limited, particularly for China Telecom (the largest broadband provider).

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i think in china you can not use all of social media sites because they blocked this sites in Chinese country
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If you are willing to get a BQ Ubuntu edition
you can install a VPN on it with a few tweaks to IPtables
or ufw to keep it running properly.
This assumes of course that the particular version of VPN works in China, as some have failed.

Have no illusions about just opening the box
and being able to hack away with it though.
Ubuntu Touch is a linux system that has been castrated and amputated at the knees
by the Ubuntu devs so that it can not run much more than cotton-candy consumer crap.
There is absolutely zip-nada-ada-anything for developers or hackers.
The complete absence of any version of VPN in the corporate store tells the whole story about
who Ubuntu guys sleep with.

I use vpn (no I will not broadcast which one here).

It simply involved generating an .ovpn file and saving it in the right location and a few minor iptable edits.

The Ubuntu operating system is a hopeless trainwreck,
but at least it is not a babbling tout like Android
or a locked prison like Apple.
Because it still can run terminal and mc and has a relatively hackable directory structure it can be tamed to a small degree.

The worst thing about Ubuntu Touch is the utter absence of a sensible email client,
and all the restrictions the devs have locked away from the user adjustment.
If you can stomach all that and just use webmail for your email services (Gmail has an app but I bet it fails in China)
then you might be able to endure.
Because the Ubuntu Devs are so heavy-handed with crippling user rights
there will be little more than the current swarm of
web-fart displays and the bandwidth-guzzling Scopes thingies.
(they re-download things like thumbnails and stuff each-and-every-time you restart a scope - this is fscking insanity)

But at least a VPN can be made to work on it.
My remaining n900 is too fragile to be put through such paces but apt-get install is mostly there and can be accessed if you are sufficiently motivated.

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ssh -D + privoxy was enough for me last september

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i think in china you can not use all of social media sites because they blocked this sites in Chinese country
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You can use all social media when you're traveling for business. Some sites are being blocked for the people living in china not tourist or business people. It's not like Turkey.

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It depends on your APN, if you are roaming from a abroad service, like you are using a Turkish number roaming internet in China, you will get full access of all network, if you have a local number or using WiFi inside mainland China, will be inside GFW.

The best solution will be of course, use a VPN.