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Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by jacobgkau »

nograpes wrote: post #198
teekert wrote: post #173

What is going on if you don’t mind my asking? Our local news does not mention anything. Nor does ddging help? Any sources?

Massive protests have occurred due to obvious government corruption. In particular the housing allowance for a month for a parliamentarian is now ten times the minimum wage for a month. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/indonesia-prot... Sorry I don't have a better freely accessible source, maybe someone with more knowledge can fill it in.

> the housing allowance for a month for a parliamentarian is now ten times the minimum wage for a month.

I'm almost positive that everyone in the US Congress is making at least ten times the minimum wage in this country. The "housing allowance" being referred to is separate from their normal salary in Indonesia, but still, interesting to imagine how much more seriously people there would take that disparity than in many other countries.

This caught my attention more:

> Indonesia passed a law in March allowing for the military to assume more civilian posts, while this month the government announced 100 new military battalions that will be trained in agriculture and animal husbandry. In July the government said the military would also start manufacturing pharmaceuticals.

They're replacing civilian industry with military, apparently not out of any emergency requirement but just to benefit the military with jobs (and the government with control over those sectors) at the expense of civilian jobs.

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by akho »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #225
akho wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wireguard is not censorship-resistant, and most VPN-averse countries block cross-border Wireguard. Why reply a practical question in an area in which you have no experience?

Is it possible to identify wireguard traffic that isn't on a common port?

Yes. Fixed packet headers, predictable packet sizes. I don't know what "a common port" means in relation to wg.

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Post by cherryteastain »

curiousgal wrote: post #140
JustExAWS wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am just waiting for red states in the US to try this too since their current laws requiring ID verification for porn sites aren’t effective.

> red states Well you'd be surprised to find out that this stupid policy (and many more) have been brought forward by Labour (Left).

Labour supported it but it was proposed and passed by Parliament in 2023 during the Tory government

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by vehemenz »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #29
doix wrote: post #24

I'm currently traveling in Uzbekistan and am surprised that wireguard as a protocol is just blocked. I use wireguard with my own server, because usually governments just block well known VPN providers and a small individual server is fine. It's the first time I've encountered where the entire protocol is just blocked. Worth checking what is blocked and how before deciding which VPN provider to use.

We've had success using wireguard over wstunnel in places where wireguard is blocked. https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel

This looks great, thanks.

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Post by myshoemouth »

_verandaguy wrote: post #97

Hello! I've got experience working on censorship circumvention for a major VPN provider (in the early 2020s). - First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. Many providers who are aware of VPN censorship and cater to these locales distribute their VPNs through hard-to-block channels and in obfuscated packages. S3 is a popular option but by no means the only one, and some VPN prov…

I'm curious. How does a state actor do actual DPI without pushing certs to end user devices?

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by johnisgood »

more_corn wrote: post #217
reisse wrote: post #67

You've come to a wrong place to ask. Most people here (judging by recommendations of own VPN instances, Tor, Tailscale/other Wireguard-based VPNs, and Mullvad) don't have any experience with censorship circumvention. Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran. These are the cutting edge tech, they may not be so privacy-friendly as Mullvad, but they will certainly work.

^ this comment is right on. The cutting edge of VPN circumvention is the one marketed to people in China. Last I poked at this there were a lot of options.

Can I have a list of these options?

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by jszymborski »

int_19h wrote: post #181
jszymborski wrote: post #10

Mastodon is not easy for regimes to completely block, and most instances won't block you for using Tor. Mastodon saw a huge migration from Brazil when X was blocked there. https://joinmastodon.org/

It would be easy to block on protocol level. Countries that block VPNs usually progress to that level pretty fast once they discover that simple IP blocks don't work.

The traffic looks like any other web page.

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by arewethereyeta »

reisse wrote: post #67

You've come to a wrong place to ask. Most people here (judging by recommendations of own VPN instances, Tor, Tailscale/other Wireguard-based VPNs, and Mullvad) don't have any experience with censorship circumvention. Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran. These are the cutting edge tech, they may not be so privacy-friendly as Mullvad, but they will certainly work.

Actually I do, we sell a lot of proxy types designed specifically to circumvent such filters. Trojan works great for our Iran and China users: https://www.anonymous-proxies.net/products/residential-troja...
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