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Japanese graduate program used an HTML trick to prevent mainland Chinese students from applying, sneaking "Tiananmen Square" into its HTML code to stop the page from loading in mainland China

https://x.com/UnseenJapanSite/status/1865557220857151961

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I thought they had the entire Internet blocked off in the first place from inside china? Would this still block through the vpns they use

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the great firewall isn't like that. only a relatively small number of addresses are blocked outright. most of it works by matching keywords. it might throttle or drop the connection as a result. a vpn would avoid this "HTML trick"

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