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

1308 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | 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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nine_k ◴[28 Aug 25 19:42 UTC] No.45056224[source]▶
XRay / XTLS-Reality / VLESS work rather fine, and is said to be very hard to detect, even in China.

I followed [1] to set up my own proxy, which works pretty fine. More config examples may be helpful, e.g. [2].

[1]: https://cscot.pages.dev/2023/03/02/Xray-REALITY-tutorial/

[2]: https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-examples/blob/main/VLESS-TCP-XT...

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1. taminka ◴[28 Aug 25 21:48 UTC] No.45057434[source]▶
im curious, isn't ALL of your traffic appearing to be to just one website the most obvious giveaway?
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2. akho ◴[28 Aug 25 22:21 UTC] No.45057704[source]▶
*ray clients typically allow configuration of routing. So you can send only blocked stuff through the tunnel; or, in reverse, send some known-working stuff (e. g. local domain) direct. Also works as adblock.