

If you think the price of VPN service is higher than you can afford, then Shadowsocks is the best choice for you to access the open internet when you traveling in China, typically you only need to pay a small amount of fee for the server that runs Shadowsocks, usually about 5 to 10 dollars a month.

Unlike normal proxy software, Shadowsocks also encrypt the data transferred between the client and the server, so the authorities can’t recognize your proxy traffic, that’s why it is hard to get blocked like other proxies. Shadowsocks works similar to a VPN, it reroutes a user’s internet data sent by the computer or smartphone to a remote server in an uncensored country, which is called a Shadowsocks server, only then will it connect to the wider internet, as a result, the user can browse the internet content accessible from that country even he or she is actually traveling in China. Shadowsocks is a proxy software that was built for the specific purpose of helping people in internet censored countries access the blocked websites, it has become very popular among Chinese users recent years, it is also a very helpful tool for foreign travelers in China or some other internet censored countries, as it’s a cheaper way for them to unblock those frequently used websites like Google, Twitter, YouTube and the like.
