softpedia.com
Mixed
Results vary across softpedia.com: of 9 URLs tested, 5 are blocked, 2 are disrupted some of the time and 2 load normally. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and resets the connection. 620 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-17, the most recent on 2026-11-05.
The site itself
http://softpedia.comIntermittenthttps://softpedia.comIntermittenthttp://www.softpedia.comas of 2026Not blockedhttps://www.softpedia.comas of 2026Not blockedPages and subdomains (5)
http://mobile.softpedia.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://mobile.softpedia.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/tor-browser/as of 2026Blockedhttp://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Misc-Networking-Tools/Freegate.shtmlas of 2026Blockedhttps://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/dyn-postdownload.php/b575ad9171c96f7b609727fbe449dbf9/615c892e/c12/4/d74cas of 2026BlockedAbout softpedia.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across softpedia.com: of 9 URLs tested, 5 are blocked, 2 are disrupted some of the time and 2 load normally. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and resets the connection. 620 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-17, the most recent on 2026-11-05.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks softpedia.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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