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Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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Mullvad has a Wireguard obfuscation feature you can enable. Does that work for you?

no need, but thanks. daily routine become a more painful, because of two-way blocking. i even cant read new science paperwork from US universities, they're block whole ASN's. we're slowly moving to great firewall, i suppose.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#12
Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#15
I have the fortune to reside in Russia-controlled Donbas. Over here they have been blocking all WireGuard connections for a long time. OpenVPN seems to be blocked selectively depending on the host. The government and commerce must need it more than WireGuard.

It isn't consistent. Different ISPs block different hosts and protocols at different times. I assume we are a kind of test and staging environment for censorship in Russia.

In the interest of anonymity I am not going to respond to your questions.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#16
Unfortunately, thanks to the Great Firewall of China, there has been a lot of resources put in to fingerprint VPNs and block them by state actors.

Fortunately, however, there is equally years of some of the smartest minds on the planet working to bypass Chinese censorship, so there are some great OpenVPN alternatives.

I really encourage you to look into something like Shadowsocks which Chinese people have found great success in using over the last several years.

In your case, however, it's worth mentioning that if you can't connect at all then it's likely they've blocked the commercial IPs of the VPN nodes.

It's quite sad that projects like Streisand[0] were archived, but I'm sure there are other alternatives that might make it just as easy to roll onto a server.

[0] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#17
Russians at this point are somewhat accepting the latest shenanigans of Roskomnadzor and in some cases are even somewhat supportive of it ("necessary evil"). So part of why there is not a lot of discussion on the English internet is that not even on the Russian internet there is not a ton of discussion about it.

VPNs stop and continue working on a somewhat regular schedule for a long time at this point.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#18

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Nobody expects the Russian deep packet inquisition!

i mean, all things working fine, dpi exists, traffic filtered. and government do their job, as it should.

this screams about blocking, become from those who tried to get money from reselling and mixing traffic to do bad stuff.

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#19

Try SquareX's disposable browser - works for me in China and is basically Remote Browser Isolation but for consumers. It seems free right now - https://www.sqrx.com

requiring an email in order to download a privacy tool isnt a great start for anonymity. why should I trust this tool?

Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

#20
I wonder how this will affect political discourse in the USA. Legitimate question. I’m not concerned with “sides”, more interested to know if there will be less “division/fiery rhetoric”. There seems to have been a systemic psyops campaign from foreign actors into US political “hot” topics.
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