Chinese app allows small glimpse beyond ‘Great Firewall’
BEIJING (Reuters) – An app launched this week in China allows entry to some content material materials on Western social media web sites prolonged banned domestically resembling YouTube, marking the first product by a severe Chinese tech company that helps internet clients bypass the Great Firewall.
Tuber was launched on third-party Android retailers in China by a subsidiary of Qihoo 360, an important Chinese cybersecurity company. The app, which has since seen tens of thousands and thousands of downloads, is not obtainable on the Apple retailer merely however.
While such proxy apps are often not new in China, the place a digital private neighborhood (VPN) service is often wished to allow residence clients passage to web sites resembling Google or Facebook, the arrival of Tuber suggests a slight reducing of the Great Firewall.
While welcomed by internet clients in China, some complained in regards to the app’s slowness. References to delicate political factors resembling …
