Please continue using a VPN when visiting this channel, or using Lemmy in general.

Most - if not all - sites are not blocked and can be reached freely, but that also means your ISP can keep tabs on you.

  • I think they might know, at least they can if they wanted to. Pinning down a reddit post from ISP data is not that hard: reddit don’t put post id in query string, but in the URL, which is unencrypted. With the created time of a post, the added payment link from a VPN, I think they can kind of pin down the author of a post if they really wanted to.

    But I think most dissenters are not that much of a concern for the CCP, and it would cost a lot of resources to arrest most of them. Especially given there are many low-hanging fruits on Weibo, I don’t think they want to spend the effort to silence such a minority that cannot even be heard by most Chinese.

    Turns out URL is also encrypted except the base domain (see comment). So it is unlikely they can figure out.