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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: 0.209s | 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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acuozzo ◴[28 Aug 25 17:01 UTC] No.45054469[source]▶
Grab a VPS and use SOCKS5 tunneling via SSH.
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Joel_Mckay ◴[28 Aug 25 17:26 UTC] No.45054743[source]▶
SSH is often targeted by deep packet inspection and protocol binding filters.

i.e. One is better off tunneling over https://www.praise-the-glorious-leader.google.com.facebook.c...

include SSH traffic protocol auto-swapping on your server (i.e. no way to tell the apparent web page differs between clients), as some corporate networks are infamously invasive. People can do this all day long, and they do... =3

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