Unless you frequently travel to China and need to access websites blocked by the Great Firewall, you might be better off with some other VPN.
IF a company is founded somewhere that means they have deep roots to that location. Would you want to use a VPN that started in Hong Kong? That is the question you must ask yourself.
China is one of the world’s worst countries in terms of internet censorship and deep packet inspection. Also, if you are unaware of the situation, a lot of people think Hong Kong is autonomous from China as a government. But if you do your research, like reading this article, you can see that Beijing ultimately has control and say over Hong Kong, which means that pro democracy forces are kept in the shadow of the real power of internet control and censorship and jailed journalists.
Every Chinese VPN is pretty much owned by the government, or just blocked if they are not in compliance. If a Chinese based VPN is operating from Hong Kong, China, then you can be sure the Chinese government OWNS all the data. Here is some text to confirm from their own website archived on the internet via this link in 2009.
Sure, they could have an office in the British Virgin Islands, or say they are based there, but that doesn’t mean the company is controlled there. “Unlike other VPN services, our network is located in Hong Kong, which is Asia’s premier Internet hub and offers rapid data transmission speeds to Mainland China and the rest of the world.”
“A huge advantage of our location in Hong Kong is that we benefit from uncensored and unrestricted Internet access to the outside world”.
It was only in 2010, that ExpressVPN wizened up and stopped promoting themselves as a Chinese based VPN.]
Great insight, Zhang Fei.
Thank you.
Good info, thank you, will pass it on.
What do you think of the VPN “SurfShark”, who are touted by the guy at China Uncensored?