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No recent testsVerdict from 2026-05-09 · 4 mo ago
As of the last test on 2026-05-09 — 4 mo ago — it was reachable in mainland China. We haven't tested it since, so this may have changed.
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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.
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