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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: 0.537s | 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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doix ◴[28 Aug 25 17:14 UTC] No.45054598[source]▶
I'm currently traveling in Uzbekistan and am surprised that wireguard as a protocol is just blocked. I use wireguard with my own server, because usually governments just block well known VPN providers and a small individual server is fine.

It's the first time I've encountered where the entire protocol is just blocked. Worth checking what is blocked and how before deciding which VPN provider to use.

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atmosx ◴[28 Aug 25 19:45 UTC] No.45056253[source]▶
Cloak + wireguard should work fine on the server side. The problem is that I didn't find any clients for Android and I doubt there are clients for iOs that can (a) open a cloak tunnel and then (b) allow wireguard to connect to localhost...
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1. akho ◴[28 Aug 25 22:16 UTC] No.45057662[source]▶
AmneziaWG is obfuscated, wireguard-based, and has clients for whatever.
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2. atmosx ◴[30 Aug 25 19:26 UTC] No.45077294[source]▶
I'll give it a shot, thanks!