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

1308 points rickybule | 4 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.706s | source

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?
1. defulmere ◴[28 Aug 25 17:00 UTC] No.45054455[source]▶
SOCKS proxy over SSH?
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2. pmlnr ◴[28 Aug 25 17:08 UTC] No.45054534[source]▶
Android doesn't come with system wide socks proxy support, and i couldn't find an open source app for it either. Is anyone aware of one?

Nonetheless this is a surprisingly simple and bullet proof solution: SSH, that's not vpn boss, i need it for work.

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3. newlisp ◴[28 Aug 25 17:25 UTC] No.45054733[source]▶
For web browsing, Firefox lets you configure socks on android.
4. kevindamm ◴[28 Aug 25 18:31 UTC] No.45055410[source]▶
Outline is an open source shadowsocks client, and you provision your own server to act as the proxy. You can use it against any Shadowsocks server you want, and the protocol makes it look like regular https traffic.

https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-apps

Android & iOS & Linux & Mac & Windows

their server installer will help set up a proxy for users that aren't familiar with shadowsocks, too