Do you want to use streaming services in China? We have plenty of guides about how to set up DAZN, Hulu, and many others, so if you don’t already have accounts on the likes of DAZN, we do recommend that you check those guides out. But if you already have access to streaming services, but are planning a trip to China, continue reading as this is a post for you!
If you already have an account for a streaming service that you want to use, there are only two steps needed to use streaming services in China.
While China does censor a lot of content, when it comes to streaming services, most of them are limited worldwide, and not just in China, which makes using streaming services in China slightly more complicated.
In this guide, doing the first step will allow you to access services/sites that are blocked in China due to the Chinese Firewall. Meanwhile, the second step will allow you to bypass the geo-blocks of the streaming services that you want to use.
There’s only one thing you can do when it comes to this.
Use a VPN.
Not only can a VPN keep what you are doing in China, safe by encrypting your connection, but it can also allow you to connect outside of China so that you don’t have to deal with any of China’s bans such as on social media.
However, it’s not as simple.
China is well aware of VPN services and commits to preventing VPN services from working like no other nation around the planet.
An ordinary VPN service can be detected as a VPN service quite easily. When China detects that you are using a VPN, it kills your entire internet connection until you disconnect.
And that’s where Stealth VPN comes in. Stealth VPN is a type of VPN that blends in with ordinary traffic and thus isn’t detectable as a VPN. The result? You can use streaming services in China.
Kind of.
Using Stealth VPN to bypass China’s VPN block will allow you to access sites that are blocked in China, but it won’t allow you to use streaming services in China directly.
For instance, if Hulu only works in the US and Japan, just because the site isn’t blocked anymore after using StealthVPN, won’t make the actual service work. And that’s where the next step comes in.
The second step to take if you want to use streaming services in China is to use servers that are optimized for streaming.
You need to look for servers that support specific streaming platforms such as Hulu, DAZN, Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO, or whatever streaming services you want to use while in China.
Services like Netflix need to make efforts to prevent people from switching locations with the use of a VPN. If they don’t, they can get in trouble. As a result, you need to use specific VPN servers to use streaming services in China.
And that’s where PrivateVPN comes in both with Stealth VPN support but also with dedicated Hulu, HBO, DAZN, and Amazon Prime servers just to name a few. Matter of fact, PrivateVPN supports the most Netflix regions on the market, meaning that you can unblock the most Netflix content available when using it.
If you want to use streaming services in China, provided you already have accounts with the services that you want to use, all you need is the right VPN that is able to bypass China’s blocks, but that also works with the services that you want to use.
PrivateVPN? It’s not the world’s only VPN with Stealth VPN, nor is it the only service that supports the likes of Netflix, but instead of focusing on quantity, it focuses on quality. That’s why it supports platforms like DAZN, and that’s why it supports the most Netflix regions on the market, even though there are services out there with several thousand more servers in their offer.
Written by Michael Smolski.