1308 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.426s | 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?

Show context

dongcarl ◴[28 Aug 25 17:51 UTC] No.45054975[source]▶

>>45054260 (OP) #

Give Obscura a try, we get around internet restrictions by using QUIC as transport, which looks like HTTP/3 and doesn't suffer from TCP-over-TCP meltdown: https://obscura.net/

Technical details: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

Let us know what you think!

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Obscura.

replies(4): >>45055464 #>>45056114 #>>45058474 #>>45058820 #

McNulty2 ◴[28 Aug 25 18:37 UTC] No.45055464[source]▶

>>45054975 #

If they're blocking other protocols then likely they're blocking quic also.

replies(1): >>45055742 #

dongcarl ◴[28 Aug 25 19:01 UTC] No.45055742[source]▶

>>45055464 #

Very possible, though many of our users are saying that in network environments where WireGuard is blocked they were able to use Obscura.

replies(1): >>45055995 #