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How to Get a VPN in China

When I arrived in China, I wondered if I would be able to keep up with the blog and to work on my other assignments (#digitalnomadlife). Why’s that? Because Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google are prohibited in China.  It has been like that for many years already. So, here I was, connected to my hostel’s Wi-Fi (or at least, trying to). I couldn’t access anything.  Well, I could, but my home page is Google, which means that it wasn’t working.  I asked the staff what was going on with their Internet and they told me I couldn’t access Facebook or Google as it was prohibited.  I thought he meant that it was prohibited in this hostel… He should have shown me the sign next to their front desk so I would have understood better. Anyway, I didn’t manage to understand how to make it work on the first night.  The next morning, I met a lovely Canadian man who told me about VPNs and what was going on with the Internet situation in Ch...