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Do Lemmygrad and Hexbear work on China without a VPN? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

lemmygrad.ml is working fine, hexbear.net and lemmy.ml are partially blocked. Side note: prolewiki.org is also partially blocked.

When I say partially blocked, it means that the IP addresses aren't blocked, so I can still connect to them without a VPN by doing some HTTP trickery with a custom Firefox extension. Fully blocked means the IP addresses are blocked so you must use proxies like VPN/IPFS/Tor to connect.

In other news, here's a list of US government sites (and one IBM subdomain) I encountered that blocks Chinese IPs:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Which is this http trickery that you are taking about?