thedailybeast.com
Mixed
Results vary across thedailybeast.com: of 7 URLs tested, 3 are disrupted some of the time and 4 load normally. 194 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-06, the most recent on 2026-08-23.
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://thedailybeast.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://thedailybeast.comNot blockedhttp://www.thedailybeast.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.thedailybeast.comNot blockedPages and subdomains (3)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-police-are-spying-on-uighurson-american-soil?dt_dapp=1Not blockedhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/china-adds-the-washington-post-and-the-guardian-to-firewall-blacklist?ref=homeIntermittenthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-suggests-his-hunter-biden-dirt-was-intercepted-in-the-mail?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4as of 2026Not blockedAbout thedailybeast.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across thedailybeast.com: of 7 URLs tested, 3 are disrupted some of the time and 4 load normally. 194 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-06, the most recent on 2026-08-23.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://thedailybeast.com is intermittent, https://thedailybeast.com is not 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.
Elsewhere on the site
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