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

1308 points rickybule | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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?
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reisse ◴[28 Aug 25 18:30 UTC] No.45055399[source]▶
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.

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riehwvfbk ◴[28 Aug 25 18:46 UTC] No.45055571[source]▶
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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yogorenapan ◴[28 Aug 25 18:49 UTC] No.45055614[source]▶
I think REALITY is the newer protocol. I remember VLESS being somewhat more detectable
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1. taminka ◴[28 Aug 25 19:23 UTC] No.45055987[source]▶
nah, vless is the protocol, reality is a newer obfuscation method that works over vless

edit: op, protonvpn has a free tier that works in russia, so likely works everywhere, or if you're comfortable with buying a vps, sshing into it and running some commands, look up x-ray, and use on of their gui panels