Still trying to unblock Facebook in China? I’m not a computer nerd so I won’t try to be one, and I’ll assume you’re not one either otherwise you’d probably already know how unblock Facebook in China. It took me a while to figure things out, so hopefully this article can help you out. As far as how to unblock Facebook in China, basically there’s proxies and vpn. The difference is not that important, but what is important is what works and what doesn’t. To unblock Facebook in China I used free proxies for a while which were extremely slow and you could only view a few pages before their ads popped up to buy the paid product which was frustrating to say the least. Recently china’s firewall has gotten smarter and I’ve found that many of the proxy sites were blocked or extremely slow. So I moved to vpn.
A vpn is basically using an IP address from another country. What’s an IP address? It’s like the address of your computer. That’s why when you use Google in China it comes up with the Chinese Google. They can see that you computer is using the internet from China – they even know what city your in – maybe even your personal address (I’m not quite sure about that). So when you’re trying to find Youtube, certain Wikipedia pages, or just trying to use Facebook in China, they cut you off. When you use a vpn they will think that your computer is somewhere else – The US, England, Sweden, etc, so you can then access sites you would as if you were in that country using the internet.
Now different people have different experiences using various VPN companies. I personally have tried a few, and although many claim to specialize in working well to access Youtube or unblock Facebook in China, many are slow as a monkey’s uncle, or at least slow down local sites (Chinese sites in this case) This can be frustrating if your trying to see something on youku.com and upload pictures to you FB account at the same time or some situation like that. Also, some of them cut out sometimes which means that you have sign back in to the VPN and in some situations log back onto the site you were using or reload the video you were watching.
To unblock Facebook I’ve been using 12 Vpn in China and it works great. It’s never dropped the signal, its fast for both western and Chinese sites, and it’s cheap. Lots of places charge 20 bucks a month…12vpn is only 30 dollars for one year. 30 dollars means you have 10,000 Mib per month which is plenty for most people. I don’t know exactly what that is but watching video and uploading things use more of it. I’ve never used even close to that amount and I often watch South Park and movies online etc (I am careful about signing out when I’m not using the internet). Thirty dollars a year is not that bad – less than three dollars a month and you can unblock Facebook in China and all that jazz no problem.
