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Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship (english.elpais.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The multinational has removed dozens of apps, even though the Kremlin’s censorship body did not order the move. These services, half-permitted by the government, enable people in Russia to access social networks and independent media

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Normal VPNs don't work in Russia, you need one that's masked as usual traffic now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can get a free VPS from AWS or Oracle Cloud and set up Wireguard on it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do they really block all connections to popular cloud providers? That also blocks a bunch of "innocent" websites and services, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

VPN over an HTTP proxy then?

Or WireGuard TCP over UDP obfuscation?

[–] moonpiedumplings 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not about where the connection is going, it's about what the connection is. There are ways to detect connection based on type.

The high school I went to could autodetect and block wireguard connections, and then it would kick you off of the internet for 10 minutes. No matter what VPN server I used, wireguard would be detected.

Deep packet inspection and tricks like this can be used to automatically detect vpns. In order to "beat" them, you have you use a stealthier vpn protocol, that can disguise itself as more innocuous traffic. @[email protected] mentions some of the stealthy vpn protocols.