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		seanmcdirmid on May 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger tee... I've given up on VPNs...they just seem to be so flaky that after you pay your one year subscription fee, they are then blocked by the government. I just use Bing (disclosure: MS employee but would like search engine choice).

c1 on May 16, 2015 | [–]

Red Apricot (Hong Xing) have been working well for almost a year.

It's a Chrome extension. Based on sockets proxy.

Occasionally, it got blocked, but they would recover it in the next day.

netheril96 on May 18, 2015 | [–]

Buy a VPS and set up your own VPN. It is much cheaper and less likely to be targeted.

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