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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 RansomStark »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #58
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.

Preach comrade!

Those citizen journalists with their primary sources, disgusting.

Thats nothing but propaganda.

Remember it doesnt matter what the video shows, it only matters who showed it to you.

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

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Post by chrisweekly »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #52
bitwize wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

tangent: what is the significance of the "=3" you sign your messages with?

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

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Post by bsimpson »

Arubis wrote: post #77

If you can still get SSH access and can establish an account with a VPS provider with endpoints outside your country of origin, https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand is a little long in the tooth but may still be viable.

15 years ago, I was using EC2 at work, and realized it was surprisingly easy to SSH into it in a way where all my traffic went through EC2. I could watch local Netflix when traveling. It was a de facto VPN.

Details are not at the top of my mind these years later, but you can probably rig something up yourself that looks like regular web dev shit and not a known commercial VPN. I think there was a preference in Firefox or something.

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

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Post by mhitza »

Use the Tor browser window in Brave. It's nowhere near as anonymous as the Tor browser, but the built in ad blocking makes browsing via Tor usable. And that's what you and your compatriots are interested in.

Prepare to fill in Cloudflare captchas all day, but that's what it takes to have a bit of privacy nowadays.

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

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Post by wat10000 »

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.

Mullvad worked OK in China for me recently. Sometimes I'd have to try a few different endpoints before it worked. Something built specifically to work in those places would probably be better, but it wasn't too much trouble. Not necessarily a recommendation, just sharing one data point.

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

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

chrisweekly wrote: post #82
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

tangent: what is the significance of the "=3" you sign your messages with?

Don't worry about it... =3

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

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Post by riehwvfbk »

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.

OP: look into VLESS (and similar). And read up on ntc.party (through Google translate). There are certain VPN providers that offer the protocol.
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