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

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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 jauntywundrkind »

Nations severing peoples connections to the world is awful. I'm so sorry for the chaos in general, and the state doing awful things both.

Go on https://lowendbox.com and get a cheap cheap cheap VPS. Use ssh SOCKS proxy in your browser to send web traffic through it.

Very unfancy, a 30+ year old solution, but uses such primitive internet basics that it will almost certainly never fail. Builtin to everything but Windows (which afaik doesn't have an ssh client built-in).

Tailscale is also super fantastic.

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

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

bitwize wrote: post #48
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SSH is often targeted by deep packet inspection and protocol binding filters. i.e. One is better off tunneling over https://www.praise-the-glorious-leader.google.com.facebook.c... include SSH traffic protocol auto-swapping on your server (i.e. no way to tell the apparent web page differs between clients), as some corporate networks are infamously invasive. People can do this all day long, and they do... =3

lolwut At least it isn't goatse...

It is not a real URI... lol

The point was to include something clowns can't filter without incurring collateral costs, and wrapping the ssh protocol in standard web traffic. =3

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

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Post by rickybule »

Humorist2290 wrote: post #14

- Tor. Pros: Reasonably user friendly and easy to get online, strong anonymity, free. Cons: a common target for censorship, not very fast, exit nodes are basically universally distrusted by websites. - Tailscale with Mullvad exit nodes. Pros: little setup but not more than installing and configuring a program, faster than Got, very versatile. Cons: deep packet inspection can probably identify your traffic is using Mu…

Thank you so much for this. It is very helpful.

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

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Post by rickybule »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #42

I'm reading posts that indicate (at least some of) the blocking is at the DNS level. https://old-reddit-com.translate.goog/r/WkwkwkLand/comments/... Cloudflare says some issue affecting Jakarta has been resolved. They aren't saying what the issue was. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/1chpg2514kq8

What I'm worried most are that most people are not even aware of what is DNS and how to change it.

I can't imagine those who are caught in the chaos with only their phone and unable to access information that could help them to be safe.

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

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Post by aabdelhafez »

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.

Same in Egypt.

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

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Post by jhanschoo »

rickybule wrote: post #54
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #42

I'm reading posts that indicate (at least some of) the blocking is at the DNS level. https://old-reddit-com.translate.goog/r/WkwkwkLand/comments/... Cloudflare says some issue affecting Jakarta has been resolved. They aren't saying what the issue was. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/1chpg2514kq8

What I'm worried most are that most people are not even aware of what is DNS and how to change it. I can't imagine those who are caught in the chaos with only their phone and unable to access information that could help them to be safe.

Generally speaking, the general population that wants to use blocked services will develop enough technical know-how to circumvent it. The biggest risk is that there are bad actors giving malicious advice and to such learners, looking to defraud or otherwise exploit them.

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

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Post by barbazoo »

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/

Wouldn't it be easy to block the individual servers, e.g. https://mastodon.social?

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

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Post by hdgvhicv »

nomilk wrote: post #43

Australia and UK might soon go down this path. Something quite depressing is if we (HN crowd) find workarounds, most regular folks won't have the budget/expertise to do so, so citizen journalism will have been successfully muted by government / big media.

90% of “citizen journalism” is nothing of the sort. Just like “citizen science” researching vaccines.
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