playboard.co
Mixed
Results vary across playboard.co: of 2 URLs tested, 1 is blocked and 1 is disrupted some of the time. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 27 tests have been run under this domain since 2020-11-20, the most recent on 2026-06-16.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://playboard.coIntermittenthttps://playboard.coas of 2026BlockedAbout playboard.co and the Great Firewall
Results vary across playboard.co: of 2 URLs tested, 1 is blocked and 1 is disrupted some of the time. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 27 tests have been run under this domain since 2020-11-20, the most recent on 2026-06-16.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://playboard.co is intermittent, https://playboard.co is blocked. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks playboard.co. 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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