The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      13 days ago

      vless+reality is the current state of the art for censorship bypass. It hides VPN traffic by making it appear like regular https traffic and there are currenly no reliable ways of detecting it. Internet will get much more censored everywhere so I’d recommend you to start preparing right now

        • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Providers that I do know of probably don’t work in your country. Personally I run my own VPN servers. You just buy a cheap VPS in some country with not too much censorship (Netherlands is a pretty good one but it might not be in the future due to EU shenanigans), then you can use something like X-UI panel to easily make a VPN server. X-UI also supports a bunch of other VPN protocols, including more common ones like Wireguard, so you could start with making your own Wireguard VPN before moving on to something more advanced

          • whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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            13 days ago

            (Netherlands is a pretty good one but it might not be in the future due to EU shenanigans)

            if it gets to that would the non eu balkan countries be a safe bet for getting a vps server? (like albania bosnia serbia etc)

            • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              7·
              13 days ago

              would definitely be an improvement if/when the Netherlands starts cracking down on privacy. General rule of thumb for picking a VPN exit node is you should try crossing legal boundaries. So for example if you are living in the EU, prefer some country outside of the EU that won’t enforce EU laws and is less likely to cooperate with EU/western intelligence services. The thinking is that even if those countries don’t respect your privacy, at least they are less likely to rat you out to your own government

        • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Can’t name something from the top of my head but this article seems to provide pretty decent rundown, though I think the info might be a bit outdated now when it comes to protocol detection rates - they are probably way higher now

          I know shadowsocks is not gonna be usable once some serious DPI tools start getting rolled out. It’s already not usable in China, Russia and Iran. The problem with shadowsocks is that unlike vless+reality, it doesn’t attempt to disguise itself as normal website browsing (at least by default), so newer firewalls can detect it pretty easily. I don’t have any experience with obfs but I’m pretty sure it has the same problem. The traffic doesn’t look like anything in particular, so firewall just drops it