Unblock sites from China
Block status per site, nearest region, and step-by-step guide for every popular site people unblock from China. No install, no signup.
Verified · 2026-10-15
Almost every Western platform we track is blocked in China. In OONI tests run inside China from 15 July to 15 October 2026, Google loaded in 1.1% of 190 tests, YouTube in 3.0% of 2,890, ChatGPT in 2.6% of 193 and Wikipedia in 0.6% of 163. The failures look the same on China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile and the CERNET university network, because the filtering runs at the national gateways.
Source: verification.
What we tested through AnyProxy
Sites blocked in China, opened through our servers
Tested from our proxy exits, not from a China network. A proxy does not change what your own network can see you connect to.
Blocked nationwide
Sites currently blocked in China
Restricted or intermittent
Sites restricted on some China networks
No recorded national block
Popular sites with no recorded national block in China
We have no source or measurement showing a nationwide block on these in China. That is not a test result: some may still fail on your network.
Background
Internet restrictions in China
The Great Firewall (GFW) makes China the most technically sophisticated censorship regime online. Google, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, and virtually all Western social platforms are blocked. Deep packet inspection is used at scale; new circumvention techniques are actively probed and blocked.
How the filtering works: The GFW combines DNS poisoning, IP blocking, keyword filtering, TLS SNI inspection, and active probing. Consumer VPNs frequently fail; obfuscated protocols work best.
Who decides: Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Sets internet content policy; the Great Firewall is enforced at the national backbone by the three state-owned carriers. Since April 2024 its orders also reach app stores.
Block register
When each major site was blocked in China, and how
Per-network enforcement
How each China network applies the filter
Network measurements: OONI Explorer for China (checked 2026-10-15). China rarely shows as 'confirmed blocked' in OONI because the firewall resets connections or poisons DNS instead of serving a block page. Read the success rate: under 6% for most sites we track.
China — the timeline
Dated events in China's internet controls
- Mar 2009YouTube blocked. source
- Jul 2009Facebook blocked after riots in Xinjiang. source
- Mar 2010Google redirects google.cn to Hong Kong after refusing to keep censoring search. source
- 2014All Google services blocked; Instagram blocked during the Hong Kong protests. source
- Sep 2017WhatsApp blocked entirely ahead of the 19th Party Congress. source
- 25 Apr 2019OONI measures every language edition of Wikipedia blocked, by DNS injection and SNI filtering. source
- 19 Apr 2024Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram and Signal from its China App Store on the CAC's order. source
- 2025Freedom House scores China 9 of 100 (Not Free) and reports a national online-ID system run by the CAC and police, in force from July 2025. source
- 20 Aug 2025For about 74 minutes the Great Firewall cut every HTTPS (port 443) connection in and out of mainland China with forged TCP resets. source
- Sep 2025A leak of 500–600 GB of documents from Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab shows Great Firewall technology sold to Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan. source
- Jul–Oct 2026OONI: Google, YouTube, ChatGPT and Wikipedia each load in under 4% of tests from China. source
The essentials
What to know before you route through us
Law & policy
In China?
Users are responsible for compliance with local law. This page describes general filtering context; site availability varies by network.
Not legal advice. Workplace and managed-network policies may still prohibit proxy use even where the tool itself is lawful.
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