

Users in China need to take a few steps to circumvent the Great Firewall and connect to the Tor network. If one of these options below is not working, check your Tor logs and try another option.īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.How to circumvent the Great Firewall and connect to Tor from China? It's important to note that bridges distributed by BridgeDB (HTTPS, email), and built-in obfs4 bridges bundled in Tor Browser most likely won't work. Private and unlisted obfs4 bridges: users will need to request a private bridge to or, if they are tech-savvy, they can run their own obfs4 bridge from outside China.You can select Snowflake from Tor Browser's built-in bridge dropdown. It's available in Tor Browser stable version (Desktop and Android). Snowflake: uses ephemeral proxies to connect to the Tor network.You can select meek-azure from Tor Browser's built-in bridges dropdown. However, because it has a bandwidth limitation, this option will be quite slow. meek-azure: it looks like you are browsing a Microsoft website instead of using Tor.There are three options to unblock Tor in China:

Therefore, the second step will be to obtain a bridge that works in China. First, get an updated version of Tor Browser: send an email to with the subject "windows zh-cn" or other operating system (linux or macos)Īfter installing Tor Browser, you will probably not be able to connect directly to the Tor network, because the Great Firewall is blocking Tor. How to circumvent the Great Firewall and connect to Tor from China?
