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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: 0.199s | 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?
1. txrx0000 ◴[28 Aug 25 23:29 UTC] No.45058182[source]▶
Use the open-source SoftEther VPN. It sends your traffic over software-defined Ethernet wrapped in HTTPS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftEther_VPN

Here's a list of public instances hosted by volunteers: https://www.vpngate.net/en/

For anyone reading this who still lives in a somewhat free country and has resources to spare, please consider hosting a public instance or mirroring the VPN Gate site.