The American Yahoo, which had been one of the most popular search engines in the early days of the Internet, has announced that it is also leaving China, as the country tightens the screw on the digital sector.
Yahoo services "will no longer be accessible from mainland China" from November 1, the group said in an undated statement.
Microsoft's professional social network LinkedIn announced a similar decision in October.
Yahoo launched a search engine in the country in 1999, banking on the growth of a gigantic market in the making at a time when the internet was in its infancy in China.
But the firm had significantly downsized in China since shutting down its courier service in 2013.
While the Asian giant is now one of the most connected countries in the world, Yahoo justified its decision, citing "the increasingly difficult business and legal environment in China."
The "great computer wall"
The US company is the latest in a list of global heavyweights to throw in the towel in the Chinese market. Last month, Microsoft's professional social network LinkedIn also announced it was leaving China due to a "difficult environment". In the name of "stability", the Chinese authorities remove politically sensitive subjects from the web and internet giants are urged to block unwanted content.
Refusing to comply with Beijing's demands, the American sites and social networks Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, the participatory encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as multiple foreign media are totally blocked in China by a "great computer wall" erected by the censors of the regime.
A sidelining that has allowed China to develop its own champions, Weibo, Baidu or Alibaba.