The service I’m using removed its Russian endpoints shortly after the Ukraine conflict broke out.
I neither know nor care if they did so of their own volition or were forced to do so: either reason is a huge red flag NATO flag against being able to trust them.
Piggybacking on your question, anyone know any good VPNs that tunnel INTO Mainland China (not HK)? I WANT to browse the Chinese internet but a lot of their content, namely TV shows, are geolocked and I’m having trouble finding torrents in some cases. China also has Chinese and Western servers for a lot of things, TikTok for example, where the Chinese version is a lot more based and the Western one is pretty libshit.
I think Douyin (Chinese tiktok) and Weibo (Chinese twitter) you can access from anywhere.
Alipay is also an excellent alternative to Paypal. It has zero transaction fees, but that (and how easy it is to link a bank account) may be different in different parts of the world.
Download Huawei App Gallery (their version of the app store) if your Android phone’s native app store doesn’t have them.
I think you need a chinese phone number for Douyin
Actually, I wonder if I can use a phone number of one of my relatives in China, while geolocated in Canada. Like, is it geolocked by IP address on top of needing the right area code?