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

1309 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | 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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ddtaylor ◴[28 Aug 25 18:52 UTC] No.45055652[source]▶
Your first option until you get settled is to use an SSH reverse proxy:

    ssh -D 9999 user@my.server
Then configure your browser to use local port 9999 for your SOCKS5 proxy.

This gets you a temporarily usable system and if you can tunnel this way successfully installing some WireGuard or OpenVPN stuff will likely work.

EDIT: Thanks it's -D not -R

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1. hdgvhicv ◴[28 Aug 25 19:26 UTC] No.45056031[source]▶
It’s -D, -R is for forwarding specific ports.
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2. ddtaylor ◴[28 Aug 25 19:54 UTC] No.45056334[source]▶
Thanks I have updated my comment as well.

Sorry for the brain rot!