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

1309 points rickybule | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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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jauntywundrkind ◴[28 Aug 25 17:53 UTC] No.45054995[source]▶
Nations severing peoples connections to the world is awful. I'm so sorry for the chaos in general, and the state doing awful things both.

Go on https://lowendbox.com and get a cheap cheap cheap VPS. Use ssh SOCKS proxy in your browser to send web traffic through it.

Very unfancy, a 30+ year old solution, but uses such primitive internet basics that it will almost certainly never fail. Builtin to everything but Windows (which afaik doesn't have an ssh client built-in).

Tailscale is also super fantastic.

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1. int_19h ◴[28 Aug 25 19:40 UTC] No.45056200[source]▶
> uses such primitive internet basics that it will almost certainly never fail.

It already fails in China and Russia. Simply tunneling HTTP through SSH is too easy to detect with DPI.

> Windows (which afaik doesn't have an ssh client built-in)

It has had both SSH client and SSH server built-in since Win10.