A mirror of Astrill’s website can be accessed from China using the link From here, you can download Astrill’s client and set up an account. Is Astrill VPN Free? Astrill, free download. Astrill: Astrill VPN app provides secure VPN connection using military grade encryption based on OpenVPN and OpenWeb protocols. It supports both UDP and TCP connections with custom ports e.g. Port 53, 80, 443, etc. Smart Mode (a.k.a. GFW Mode) is made specifically for customers in China with a goal to accelerate web surfing. When Smart Mode is enabled (in the Settings Menu), only blocked sites will be opened through Astrill servers, while all other sites (local sites) will be loaded directly. Click on the SETTINGS menu. Astrill is one of the more well known VPN apps that are used in the expat community in China, and for a time it was the most widely used in China. It remains one of the best VPNs for China recommended on forums.
As of October 15, 2016 all links on the Tips for China website that were pointing to Astrill will now land on this page instead. It appears that Astrill has banned my affiliate account without telling me. I don't know when this happened or what the reason is, but when I log into my Astrill account the affiliate account is gone. Perhaps they didn't like this page or this page.
Whatever the reason, I am happy to say good riddance to this shitty company and remove their affiliate links from this website.
You might not care about the way the treat their affiliates but you should know that they don't treat their customers any better.
Besides treating their customers and affiliates poorly, their VPN service has major problems in China too. Unlike other VPN companies, Astrill attracts special attention from the government in China. Their service is often blocked completely. When it does work, you can only connect with their paid add-ons or use the web proxy instead of a VPN.
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Below are some screenshots of complaints about Astrill from affiliates, customers, and former employees. You can click on each image to go to the source URL of each screenshot.
I can't verify whether any of the claims are true, but given the large number of complaints, I think it's something that you should look into before visiting Astrill's website. Do your own research by searching for Astrill on Google, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.
The first complaint is from another former affiliate. Lucky for me, I didn't earn anywhere near as much as this guy!
Astrill In China Website
We try to keep as less personal information as possible. Some information is however necessary for technical functioning of the services. What we keep and how long we store it is explained in details below:
Our system keeps track of active sessions - connection time, IP address, device type and Astrill VPN application version during the duration of your VPN session. Once you disconnect from VPN this information is removed permanently from our system. This information is solely used to limit the number of devices connecting from single account simultaneously. You can check all active sessions from member zone and you can erase them at any time.
Astrill also counts amount of traffic used by clients in order to plan network expansions. No personally identifiable information is kept - only number of transferred bytes.
Additionally to this, we keep last 20 connection records which include: connection time, connection duration, country, device type and Astrill client application version number. This information is only used by our customer support to identify potential issues with VPN connection and provide adequate support. This information contains no personally identifiable information (for example we don't keep IP addresses or your physical location). This information is automatically removed in case of no activity in past 30 days.