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Old 18 March 2017, 03:33 PM   #1
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TRF blocked in china

I was in China last week and found out TRF site is blocked in China along with Google and many other news sites. I used to be able to use my corporate VPN to bypass the blocking, but no more. They figure out a way to consistently block my VPN connection as well. I'm in Hong Kong for the weekend, so nice to be able to get back to the free world.
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Old 18 March 2017, 03:37 PM   #2
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Hmm, no wonder I don't see users from China on here. Strangely, china likes to block anything and everything.

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Old 18 March 2017, 03:43 PM   #3
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No Facebook also in China
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Old 18 March 2017, 04:15 PM   #4
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They block everything there. Its very inconvenient, cant browse at all except local and "approved" websites.
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Old 18 March 2017, 04:20 PM   #5
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That's sad. Imagine all the cool collections we can't see due to this:(
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Old 18 March 2017, 04:27 PM   #6
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Oh well. Sucks to live in China.
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Old 18 March 2017, 07:47 PM   #7
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Old 18 March 2017, 08:06 PM   #8
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No TRF in China?!?@?@ its amazing they can enjoy their watches without a website fan club
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Old 18 March 2017, 09:10 PM   #9
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Last year I was there used VPN, worked good
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Old 18 March 2017, 09:29 PM   #10
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I was in China last week and found out TRF site is blocked in China along with Google and many other news sites. I used to be able to use my corporate VPN to bypass the blocking, but no more. They figure out a way to consistently block my VPN connection as well. I'm in Hong Kong for the weekend, so nice to be able to get back to the free world.
Sounds like you need a new corporate VPN. Blocking TRF seems to be the least of your concerns.

Witopia worked for a colleague a few months ago while touristing in China. You might try that for your laptop on your next visit.
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Old 18 March 2017, 10:20 PM   #11
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Old 18 March 2017, 11:33 PM   #12
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I was in China last week and found out TRF site is blocked in China along with Google and many other news sites. I used to be able to use my corporate VPN to bypass the blocking, but no more. They figure out a way to consistently block my VPN connection as well. I'm in Hong Kong for the weekend, so nice to be able to get back to the free world.


You were not on a clean, secure tunnel VPN methinks. Rather a man-in-the-middle ploy.

Because the attacker would be in China on a home country server reading all your Internet traffic, they couldn't relay your traffic to TRF or other banned sites.

When you get home, have your laptop wiped clean and rebuilt from a back-up made before you left. You may also have some cryptolocker ransomware now, so you may be infecting the rest of your corporate network.

True - this is worst case - but you asked...
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Old 19 March 2017, 12:28 AM   #13
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Old 19 March 2017, 12:59 AM   #14
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Old 19 March 2017, 01:05 AM   #15
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I'm there quite a bit. The "open door" app allows me to access whatever I want. That's only for my iPad. Fortunately I'm grandfathered into VeriZons Global Unlimited data on my phone, so I can use all the data I want.
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Old 19 March 2017, 03:01 AM   #16
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In some cases, I have no idea why sites are blocked

The casual observer assumes it's all about political censorship, but I've heard that the blocks are largely in place to prop up domestic internet-based businesses
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Old 20 March 2017, 12:29 AM   #17
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Nooooooo.

I am there during Basel
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Old 20 March 2017, 12:37 AM   #18
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Nooooooo.

I am there during Basel
Bad planning.
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Old 20 March 2017, 12:57 AM   #19
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No TRF there? I could save money moving there....
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Old 20 March 2017, 01:00 AM   #20
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Old 20 March 2017, 09:27 AM   #21
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Old 29 April 2017, 05:02 AM   #22
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In shanghai now and TRF (and FB, Google, etc.) is working fine. Apparently, I'm in a 17 square mile area where the blocks are disabled
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Old 2 May 2017, 06:31 PM   #23
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Get a VPN

If you plan on coming to china, "Get A VPN" before you go.
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Old 2 May 2017, 06:43 PM   #24
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Truly sad that they subject their people to such censorship.

It's just another reason I'll never visit that country.
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Old 3 May 2017, 04:36 PM   #25
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I think in China, they have their own local watches websites/forums.
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Old 3 May 2017, 07:42 PM   #26
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Yeah I'm surprised about this. I'm in China right now and found I could access this site before but recently couldn't.

On your mobile, definitely download about 10 vpns before you go to China. Google play doesn't work either
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Old 4 May 2017, 04:01 AM   #27
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That's sad. Imagine all the cool collections we can't see due to this:(
I agree. I'd love to see China "represent"!
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Old 4 May 2017, 04:11 AM   #28
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Bummer! Watches are an International way of communicating and should be for everyone to gawk at, buy, discuss and photograph! I hope someone comes up with a workaround.
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Old 4 May 2017, 02:21 PM   #29
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Disregard, one of the problems running a VPN in the middle Kingdom with the
"great fire wall".

See next post

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Old 4 May 2017, 09:09 PM   #30
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