Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

I mean, AFAIK my blog isn't. Yet. I get visitors from China on my post about controlling the world's cheapest quadcopter from a PC via arduino and nrf24l01+...

edit: I just checked, it's accessible from mainland China, though quite slow.

If anyone else wants to check their website's accessibility from China, I run a service that lets developers proxy HTTP requests through real Chinese (and worldwide) residential ISP customers: https://packetstream.io

We have a worldwide network of real users that install a relay app on win/mac and we proxy customer requests through their home ISP connections like this:

  ```
  developer@Developers-MacBook-Pro-2:~% curl -x http://xxxx:xxxx_country-China@proxy.packetstream.io:31112 https://ifconfig.co/json
  {"ip":"223.166.106.16","ip_decimal":3752225296,"country":"China","country_eu":false,"country_iso":"CN","city":"Qingpu","latitude":31.1539,"longitude":121.1141,"asn":"AS17621","asn_org":"China Unicom Shanghai network"}
  ```

I just tested HN several times from different Chinese IPs and it is indeed blocked:

  ```
  developer@Developers-MacBook-Pro-2:~% curl -v -x https://xxxx:xxxx_country-China@proxy.packetstream.io:31111 https://news.ycombinator.com/
  *   Trying 34.234.216.249...
  * TCP_NODELAY set
  * Connected to proxy.packetstream.io (34.234.216.249) port 31112 (#0)
  * Establish HTTP proxy tunnel to news.ycombinator.com:443
  * Proxy auth using Basic with user 'xxxx'
  > CONNECT news.ycombinator.com:443 HTTP/1.1
  > Host: news.ycombinator.com:443
  > Proxy-Authorization: Basic xxxx
  > User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
  > Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
  >
  < HTTP/1.1 502 Proxy Error (destination unreachable)
  < Proxy-agent: PacketStream Proxy
  < Content-Type: text/html
  <
  * Received HTTP code 502 from proxy after CONNECT
  * Closing connection 0
  curl: (56) Received HTTP code 502 from proxy after CONNECT
  ```

If any HN users want free PacketStream credits to test their own endpoints send me an email with your PacketStream username: ronald at packetstream dot io

Oh wow that's an excellent service. Especially given the fact you provide access to actual Chinese network endpoints.

Please post the link again, this time as a Show HN link-post and put the text description as the first comment (I've noticed that increases chances of success. ) (given the fact your previous post from 6 months ago didn't get any traction). Of course, if you want.