scribd.com
Mostly blocked
21 of the 24 URLs we have a verdict for under scribd.com are blocked in mainland China; 3 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, blocks the connection outright and poisons its DNS. 2,114 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-02-21, the most recent on 2026-07-26.
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://scribd.comBlockedhttps://scribd.comas of 2025Intermittenthttp://www.scribd.comBlockedhttps://www.scribd.comas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (20)
http://zh.scribd.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://zh.scribd.comBlockedhttps://www.scribd.com/homeIntermittenthttp://www.scribd.com/doc/62697023Blockedhttp://www.scribd.com/privateproxyninjasBlockedhttps://zh.scribd.com/doc/252796577/Abort-CcpBlockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/114356409/Falun-GongBlockedhttp://de.scribd.com/doc/120758305/Annual-Report-TCHRD-2012Blockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/102797697/Disciplined-Minds-SchmidtBlockedhttps://www.scribd.com/doc/9635904/Satrapi-Persepolis-1-Englishas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/145552855/AmnestyInternational-AnnualReport2013Blockedhttps://www.scribd.com/document/251133573/Game-Design-Theory-and-Practiceas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/140558538/China%E2%80%99s-Silent-Army-Review-the-EconomistBlockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/16548827/Fugitive-Consciousness-In-The-Technological-TyrannyBlockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/108460206/Michael-Swan-Practical-English-Usage-New-3rd-EditionBlockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/13731776/Tracking-GhostNet-Investigating-a-Cyber-Espionage-NetworkBlockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/140557386/China%E2%80%99s-Silent-Army-South-China-Morning-Post-ReviewBlockedhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/140557926/China%E2%80%99s-Silent-Army-EL-PAIS-SEMANAL-Feature-Story-23-OctubreBlockedhttps://www.scribd.com/document/337471737/Proof-of-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-utilizing-the-theory-of-Alternative-FactsBlockedhttps://www.scribd.com/document/386986204/%E7%A8%8B%E6%98%8E%E6%9D%BE%E6%94%B9%E7%BC%96-%E6%96%B0%E7%BC%96%E6%A2%85%E8%8A%B1%E8%B0%B1-pdfas of 2026IntermittentAbout scribd.com and the Great Firewall
21 of the 24 URLs we have a verdict for under scribd.com are blocked in mainland China; 3 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, blocks the connection outright and poisons its DNS. 2,114 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-02-21, the most recent on 2026-07-26.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://scribd.com is blocked, https://scribd.com is intermittent. 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 scribd.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.
Elsewhere on the site
scribd.com is ranked #486 among the world's most-visited domains (Tranco).
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