a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Dropbox is blocked again in China, both apps and web-based service appear affected

Jun19
by on June 19, 2014 at 6:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, dropbox

dropbox
Well, that was brief. Back in February, Dropbox was found to have been unblocked in China, but now it seems that the popular cloud-storage service is no longer accessible in the the world’s largest country, according to tweets from users and data from censorship monitoring organization GreatFire.org. The GreatFire database, which continually tests the accessibility of internet links from inside China to identify new blockages, shows that dl.dropbox.com (used for downloading files) is no longer accessible from inside China, which suggests that its apps will no longer work. In addition, the main Dropbox.com appears blocked there too, according to the organization’s analytics. Since GreatFire monitors…

This story continues at The Next Web

└ Tags: , ,