Claude instance access bought on Taobao is proxied through shared browsers, giving users a slow, shared experience until they get logged out, making it not worth the money.
Wes describes buying a cheap 'shared monthly card account' Claude access, discovering it is delivered by proxying shared browser instances of the actual Claude website, resulting in a slow, limited experience. ✦ AI generated
Wes · Syntax · 2026-08-07 · original ↗
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Immediately what they did is they sent me some random token that I can use and then a link to Yuk... So what they are doing here is they are proxying it through. So they have a whole bunch of clawed instances running on a browser somewhere and they are running all of these different chats and keeping track of the chat ids that are belong to me and their proxy in the middle is they're filtering it out. So they're using the same one over for multiple people... It it was a very very crappy experience for me. And also when I take a look at my dosage, which I've simply have run three or four chats so far, I only get 50 over the next 3 hours. So for the 10 bucks that I spent on this, probably not worth it.
verbatim transcript · starts at 3:37
3:28similar to a Chinese notion. So dusted off my Chinese and read all of the instructions and I sort of understood what we're working with here. Right? So when I logged into the claude website one, this is what you get. Right here you are at the garage and you have zero heaven and you have to select a parking space a total of zero vehicles. So what I've understood this to be is these are
3:54different instances of the clawed website running. So, they seem to have a bunch of browsers running and they're proxying it through. So, watch if I click through to one of these. It will load up what seems to be and seems to look like the actual Claude website. So, I can go and I can look at some of the previous conversations that I've had. I can say, who does he do a podcast with?
4:18This seems to be an actual Claude instance. So, I opened up the dev tools here. I looked at the network requests. every single time that you click on something. This looks exactly like the Claude website. It's not just like a like a dupe of it. It the everything down to the JavaScript bundle names are exactly the same. So what they are doing here is they are proxying it through. So
4:41they have a whole bunch of clawed instances running on a browser somewhere and they are running all of these different chats and keeping track of the chat ids that are belong to me and their proxy in the middle is they're filtering it out. So they're using the same one over for multiple people. I things like you click on the design and it just says not found and it will will log me out.
5:04It it was a very very crappy experience for me. And also when I take a look at my dosage, which I've simply have run three or four chats so far, I only get 50 over the next 3 hours, that doesn't seem like a very high thing. So for the 10 bucks that I spent on this, probably not worth it. What I'm more interested in is the actual $100 worth of Cloud
5:29tokens. Does that actually work? Is it real? Let's dive into that. All right, so my $100 worth of cloud credits for $8. How does this work? So I clicked off over to the Chinese notion and read the guide for newcomers. And if you scroll it, you kind you start seeing, oh, you can use it with the Cloud Code CLI, right? You can use it with Claw Desktop,
5:50you can use it with VS Code, use it with cursor. And they basically detail how to use it with absolutely every single tool that you could possibly want. So I thought, yeah, let's let's try it with Cloud Code first. So, I went over to the website that they give you access to, code.exml, and I inputed that ID that they gave me, and boom, $100 worth of credits. Right?