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Google & Gmail blocked in China


Xiao Kui

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I can get to Gmail fine. Other Google services I use (Finance, Adsense, Reader, Documents) are down.

Edit: Actually just reloaded tabs and got Adsense, Docs and Reader. And . . just got search back.

I'm not sure this is a block - maybe network issues, maybe a warning shot. My money is on everything working tomorrow morning

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It seems to be unblocked now. Such weird antics. This is the 1st time Gmail's been blocked for me since I started using it in 2006. read the danwei link, wonder what the media has planned for its promised payback tomorrow.

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I like to think there's a battle of wills going on:

Cadre: Behave, or we'll ban you.

Google: Leave us alone, or we'll turn Google off and everyone will THINK you banned us.

Cadre: 囧。雷人。我晕。

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is that because of google ads, and google-analytics?

I haven't noticed any issues, but I can't remember if and when I had Witopia running. When this topic was posted I did check, and there weren't any problems. Analytics should tell me if there was a significant drop in visitors from China, but I'm not expecting to see anything as a) don't think there were any problems and B) it was only a few hours anyway.

We may actually end up ahead if we get a spike of people searching for 'gmail blocked in China'. None so far though . . .

Edit: latest stats: visitors searching for 'gmail china' have increased 100%, with two so far today compared with one yesterday. Meanwhile 'gmail China closed' has rocketed infinity%, with a single visitor today. But today ain't over yet folks, especially when you're not even sure which timezone your stats are calculated in.

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I like to think there's a battle of wills going on:

Cadre: Behave, or we'll ban you.

Google: Leave us alone, or we'll turn Google off and everyone will THINK you banned us.

Cadre: 囧。雷人。我晕。

HAHA~~ roddy你太有才了!~:mrgreen:

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It wasn't pornography, someone posted earlier with a link that said it was technical issues.

Realmayo, if it's hanging like that on every page load can you start a topic under help / bugs report. There is a fair amount of javascript and extras in the html at the moment, I can maybe cut down some for logged in members at least.

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