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

1308 points rickybule | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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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ailun ◴[28 Aug 25 20:47 UTC] No.45056859[source]▶
Mullvad worked okay in China in June for me. I imagine it will be better in Indonesia with their less sophisticated blocking.
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1. 77pt77 ◴[28 Aug 25 21:57 UTC] No.45057516[source]▶
This makes no sense.

On the one hand they do DPI with ML.

On the other hand a major player is open!

Something is not right here...

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2. fn-mote ◴[29 Aug 25 00:22 UTC] No.45058557[source]▶
Spell out your argument more. Find some hard evidence. Even “major player” needs to be backed up.

Do you even know how many users Mullvad has in CN? I don’t. Searching says the whole company apparently has ~500k users. I don’t think that’s enough to be a significant presence in China.

3. exFAT ◴[29 Aug 25 04:19 UTC] No.45060145[source]▶
FWIW, Mullvad did not work for me in June in China :)