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

1308 points rickybule | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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dongcarl ◴[28 Aug 25 17:51 UTC] No.45054975[source]▶
Give Obscura a try, we get around internet restrictions by using QUIC as transport, which looks like HTTP/3 and doesn't suffer from TCP-over-TCP meltdown: https://obscura.net/

Technical details: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

Let us know what you think!

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Obscura.

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1. mmwelt ◴[29 Aug 25 01:02 UTC] No.45058820[source]▶
Looks like MacOS and iOS only, which is unfortunate. Support for at least Windows and Android is needed for wider adoption. Linux would also be nice.
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2. dongcarl ◴[29 Aug 25 22:20 UTC] No.45070068[source]▶
We're working on it! Android is next :-)