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

1308 points rickybule | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. gck1 ◴[28 Aug 25 22:18 UTC] No.45057680[source]▶
Also sing-box [1]. I don't use it for its primary use case of censorship circumvention, but rather for some highly complex routing configurations it supports.

My use case consists of passing some apps on my Android through interface A (e.g. banking apps through my 5G modem), some apps through US residential proxy (for US banks that don't like me visiting from abroad), and all the rest through VPN. And no root required!

It's wild that GFW triggered creation of this and nothing like it existed / exists.

[1]: https://github.com/SagerNet/sing-box