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How to Access Twitter and Facebook in China
by Jian Shuo Wang (@jianshuo) on January 21, 2010 under Internet
I setup my connection to Twitter and Facebook via SSH tunnel again. When the original tools to access Twitter, and Facebook failed, I just lost interest to setup proxy. Now, I am back and just accepted the 109 Facebook friend request. (My rule: Accept everyone in jianshuo@Facebook, but be very selective on Kaixin001.com. Here is how I did it.
The process is pretty straight forward, but it is not free.
First, you need to have an account with any web hosting service provider that supports SSH. My list:
bluehost.com (Cheaper: 6.95 USD/month)
mediatemple.net (More expensive, $20/month)
There are many other very cheap hosting services. The only thing you need to check with them is, whether they allow SSH (Secure Shell) access.
Then you need a tool called PUTTY (download for free)
Double click PUTTY to run it, and enter the server name (your host service provider will give you, typically your domain name) into "Host Name (or IP address)" field under the default Session tab. Keep all the rest unchanged, like port 22, and Connection type as SSH.
On the left Category pan, expand SSH under Connection and click Tunnels.
Under "Add New Forward port:", enter 7070 into Source Port, and select Dynamic for Destination. Keep the rest unchanged, and click Add. You will see D7070 appear under forward ports.
Then click Open to start the SSH session. You will be promoted to enter your user name and password (given by your service provider). When you are at the command line, the SSH Tunnel is established.
Then you need to setup your browser to use this proxy. Let me just talk about Firefox. IE is similar.
Open Firefox, click Options under Tools menu. The Options dialog appears.
Click Advanced button (on the right most of the pane), and select Network tab.
Click "Settings..." button under Connection section. The Connection Setting dialog appears.
Select "Manual Proxy Configuration" radio box. The input boxes under that become available to enter.
Enter "127.0.0.1" without quotation mark into SOCKS Host: field, and 7070 into Port field. NOTE: IMPORTANT Please make sure only enter into the Socks Host field, and keep all the rest fields empty.
Keep Socks v5 selected (unchanged), and click OK three times to close the configuration dialogs.
Now, you should try to enter "google.com" into address bar. You should be able to visit all the sites that you CAN access without proxy, like Google.com, www.sina.com.cn, or 163.com. However, you still cannot access Facebook.com, Youtube.com, Twitter.com. This is because the DNS record was hacked and changed. A small trick will help.
In Firefox, enter "about:config" into the address bar (Yes, it is a strange URL, just in the location where you typically would enter http://....) After click "I'll be careful. I promise" button, you will see a long list of configuration options started with Filter input box.
Enter "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" (without quotation marks) into the Filter input box, and you will see a line with network.proxy.socks_remote_dns as Preference Name appears. Double click it so the Value field changes from False to True (and you will also notice the line becomes bold).
Congratulations! Now you should be able to enter "Facebook.com" into your browser, and starts to surf on the Internet without limitation.
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Comments
great job! this is a very nice and helpful instruction! I'll save it as reference for the future if I'm going back to china next time - uh.. I feel sorry seeing blocked access to some website outside of china
Posted by: QiHui on January 21, 2010 11:55 PM
To keep a low profile with tweeter, use morse code.
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Posted by: ecodelta on January 22, 2010 2:54 AM
New kid in the block
http://www.paperb.us/
and it is free.
Posted by: ecodelta on January 22, 2010 2:57 AM
Why wouldn't bluehost.com and such be blocked? do you wait til they are blocked, then move to another, and repeat?
Posted by: Greg on January 22, 2010 9:27 AM
My blog mate said that paper bus does not help.
Posted by: dongsheng on January 23, 2010 5:00 AM
How can I pay bluehost, and can I one account shared by more than one user? (7$ is not cheaper in China).
Posted by: Sam on January 27, 2010 10:29 AM
Paper Bus is from our friends at Freedur.
The ones who came to prominence due to a very nasty disagreement.
The ones who, rather than normal marketing, prefer underhanded marketing techniques like paying bloggers to personally recommend their service and do promotions while swearing up and down that they are not paid for their efforts. Lying, in other words; they are paid to lie. Not a good signal.
The ones who have shown us all that the majority of English language China focused sites are run by unscrupulous suckers willing to do just about anything for a kuai.
In other words, at best they have scummy marketing tactics, which should make one wonder (anew) about the reliability of the company.
Posted by: Rhodo Zeb on February 2, 2010 9:39 PM
thanks ever for the post
Posted by: sasha on February 7, 2010 9:28 PM
You can use the plug-in for Firefox called FoxyProxy to be able to switch rapidly from using the proxy and not using it. Also, it manage the DNS through the proxy...
Instead of Putty, you can use his little friend: plink (also from Putty developer)
you can create a shortcut like this:
c:\windows\plink.exe [email protected] -pw thepassword -D 7070 -N
also... if you don't want to show in clear a username/password, you can use a password less method
http://www.google.com/search?q=passwordless+login+linux
Posted by: FoxyProxy on February 10, 2010 3:58 PM
Any proxies or downloads you post on this website will invariably be blocked because this website is based in China.
Posted by: jason on March 2, 2010 10:13 AM
thanks ever
Posted by: 328487492 on April 11, 2010 8:14 PM
Identity Cloaker works very well. You have limited sites in the demo, but facebook and twitter are some of them. Try it out. You can also pay (6.66euro) if there are other sites you wish to access.
http://www.identitycloaker.com?a_aid=Rochiedotbiz
Posted by: Jamie on August 14, 2010 7:23 PM
great tutorial, I actually already had MT but never thought i could use it for this.
no more witopia
Posted by: jacopo on August 19, 2010 12:28 PM
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