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Q: Is the onedrive website banned?
onedrive app and software work perfectly but I use the website to share videos and other files with my students, also it is a great alternative to flash drives on the school computers. But recently it hasn't been working.
9 years 41 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
More and more is getting blocked. China is closing, back to the darkages.
www.greatfire.org tracks what is blocked, what keywords are not allowed etc. To be fair, the prime purpose of the not-so-Great Fire Wall is to keep Chinese people from finding out what color underwear Xi Jinping is wearing, and stuff relating to their own country, rather than just pissing of us expats.
royceH:
The Leader doesn't wear underpants. If he did what would be the point of those split up the back strides he wears?
you can access ondrive from hotmail.com
royceH:
No you can't. Hotmail is blocked. Has been for 5 days now.
Scan's right....they're preparing to shut down.
Hotwater:
Hotmail isn't blocked in Guangzhou (yet!). Just checked and it works for me.
ok now... bad news and good news..
good news: one drive upgraded and is now giving 15gb to all.. I have 15gb storage now
bad news: blocked in Qingdao...
whats the news in your place? what about Guangzhou?
Argh, yes, it seems banned for me too. It was a nice way to share pictures with my parents, because it was easy to use for them :( CCP, disconnecting people... So we are going to exchange pictures and videos by sending USB sticks by mail ?
hunny797:
I have it installed on my android.. I can access through that but unable to connect on laptop...
see if that is some help to you
It's blocked, I used it for business and checked to see it is blocked and it is was... plus there were some articles on it...
China is basically going retarded and blocking everything. Getting tired of this... they are getting desperate because they think terrorists use it to communicate and common Chinese use it to connect and find out stuff about the outside world and compare it with their government.
Don't feel like living in a country that is going backwards. What's the point?
expatlife26:
yeah i've been here...god almost 5 years now. Definitely see the progress as being 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
On the one hand infrastructure has improved, product availability has increased. The material environment is somewhat "nicer" than when I arrived.
But the social and political environment have been going steadily backwards. When I came they had just blocked youtube/facebook...but basically the internet was functional. Then they started messing with google a few months later. Just downhill ever since.
My hunch now is that they wanted the illusion that China was slowly, gradually opening up, the reality being that they wanted to be just open enough to get what they wanted for a limited time period and then turn back the clock. A closed, but now much less vulnerable China.
why dont they just block the whole internet...
DrMonkey:
But then, it would be harder to play games, people would read books or something worse.
HELLO EVERY BODY!!!!!!!!!
ENJOY WHILE IT LASTS..
NOT SURE HOW LONG IT IS THERE......
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
Kind of funny that MS upped the "free" capacity to 15GB but now is dropping it back down to 6GB.
Microsoft really should change its motto to: :We hate you and it shows in all we do."
And, yes, OneDrive is blocked on and off (mostly blocked).
ScotsAlan:
My phone recently updated to win 10 Sinobear, and I just checked to see if one drive works. I can open it ok without a VPN. Don't know if I can write to it though.
But I don't use it anyway. I take lots of photos in RAW format, and I think I am up to about 2.5TB of photos to date. I keep them on HDDs. Each HDD is duplicated, so I have a lot of HDDs strewn about the place.
My favourite photos I keep on various devices in edited JPEG format, and also published to we chat, Facebook, flicker etc. But now that Flickr is banned......
I like the concept of cloud storage though. I need to put some effort into keeping my most precious visual memories safe. I will look more into this one drive.
Sinobear:
I just use my PC and check from time-to-time.
I use the QQ cloud but mostly rely on on my external drive for backing up my computer.
As for social media, no one really wants to see thousands of pictures of whatever anyhow, so all is fair in love and ambivalence.
Funny how Tencent (QQ) and Google (works on my phone but not the PC) keep upgrading my storage capacity far beyond my capacity to ever use it, but MS decides to constantly and consistently downgrade.ScotsAlan:
To be fair to MS, I do like their new model of Windows 10 being yours for life. No need to buy an upgrade. You now own Windows.
Not sure how that will work on a phone. Buy a new phone, put your license key in? No idea. Maybe Windows phones will be sold with or without Windows at different prices. Cheaper if you already own a phone etc.
Windows 8 was rubbish. I had it on a laptop ( I bought the laptop here, had a friend buy me a licensed win 8 DVD from the UK. Installed it. Win 8.1 ok. Win 10 fine.
Windows phone was bought at win 8. Upgraded to 8.1 in China, now win 10, in China.
They work work well together. Not as good as Apple of course, but I prefer the MS concept. Three platforms running the same software. I am writing this on an iPad, but I would rather be using a Surface with an 08 based processor. I have the IPad because it was offered to me cheap.
I reckon MS will be available on many devices soon. Have an android phone? How about a dual boot android/Windows phone?
ScotsAlan:
An afterthought. I bought a couple of Intel atom netbooks about a decade ago. Good concept, but too weak to handle win 7. So they had dual boot with android. The Android was never updated. Google lost interest. It was basically a modified Linux.
