Kuniao web browser peeks over China’s Great Firewall but it’s no VPN, expert says

Service advertises access to platforms that would otherwise be blocked. But the product’s own terms and conditions make it clear users should proceed with caution. — SCMP

A new web browser touted as providing Chinese internet users with a way to legally bypass the country’s notoriously tight Internet censorship actually gives them only a glimpse of what lies beyond the so-called Great Firewall, according to a cybersecurity expert.

Developed by the Fuzhou-based Zixun Tech, the Kuniao product was advertised as the first legal tool to allow people access to “popular foreign websites”, like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Reddit and Instagram.