You may have found yourself trying to access a website, seeing the webpage loading normally, then all of sudden switch to another website…
You just helped the great Cannon to blast a random foreign website.
Until last year the great firewall was sending you to some fake address when you tried to access let’s say facebook, but now they redirect the traffic to real website, and cause those website to sustain heavy traffic and eventually collapse.
Found that on the web:
It seems to me that for now they are just playing and testing and might soon be targeting worthy opponents website.
Anyway, i guess it is not really in our hands, but we do want to be able to access our dear websites, that most of the time are not threatening china by any means (like the french comic website i use to check new arrival).
You would have also find out that even you open your VPN, you still have trouble to access. The answer to that strange behavior is within the cache of your browser.
Once you are connected to your VPN, simply clear the cache/history of your browser then things will come back to normal, until you try to access internet without VPN… then again you will get into trouble….
For Internet Explorer:
That would be in “internet options” under the tab “general” click the button “delete” under “browsing history”:
For Chrome:
Go to the menu “history” (or press Ctrl+H), and click “clear browsing DATA”
Look the settings i used bellow, be sure to erase all
(as i am not sure what we are really trying to erase here i admit)
For Firefox:
menu, history, clear recent history, and erase ALL:
