onthisday.com
All blocked
Every URL under onthisday.com that we can reach a verdict on — 5 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://onthisday.com, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and returns empty responses. 100 tests have been run under this domain since 2017-06-04, the most recent on 2026-07-22.
The site itself
http://onthisday.comBlockedhttps://onthisday.comas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.onthisday.comas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (2)
https://www.onthisday.com/day/june/4Blockedhttps://www.onthisday.com/date/1989/june/4BlockedAbout onthisday.com and the Great Firewall
Every URL under onthisday.com that we can reach a verdict on — 5 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://onthisday.com, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and returns empty responses. 100 tests have been run under this domain since 2017-06-04, the most recent on 2026-07-22.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks onthisday.com. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
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