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joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Same thing on cloudflare. That’s a full national ban, alright. Unfortunately there’s no way to bypass without a VPN, and VPNs are quite slow for me.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As someone from a jurisdiction with insane VPN blocking (Russia), consider hosting your own VPN - it can be as easy as firing up a VPS anywhere and inserting one string, like with Outline for example.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Be really careful since you could easily be arrested for bypassing censorship.

      Ideally you want to have a very little evidence against you. Spending money abroad to bypass censorship is highly suspicion behavior. Financial transactions are heavily tracked plus the state can see that you are connecting to one single IP all the time.

      The best option would be to use Tor with snowflakes. I like many others in countries with low censorship run the extension to help people in places like Russia. You can download Tails to a USB so that it is hard to trace and doesn’t leave behind to much evidence. The thing to keep in mind is that Tails in itself is highly suspicious.

      Sorry that your country is slowly turning into China.

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thank you for your compassionate answer and don’t worry, I am aware of Tor and by extension Tails/Whonix/Qubes. Massive kudos for bridging! It really makes the difference - Tor access was pretty poor at times.

        Also, as things stand, using a VPN is not illegal inside Russia, despite all the pressure - there goes the suspicion that the government itself uses VPNs heavily, and there are several records of local governments actually adding VPNs to official purchases (lol).

        As for payments, some of the VPSes accept anonymous crypto like Monero, and some of the foreign ones accept ruble payments, although this is obviously more reckless.

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    • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for the advice (And my condolences for being in russia, too 😔). I’ve been thinking of setting up a VPN on my router, but the performance be too costly. We’ll see how it goes, i guess.

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My condolences.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Have you tried DNS over HTTPS?

    What’s your OS? I don’t know a ton about Saudi Arabia censorship but I would start by eliminating any state provided certificate since that’s how one would man in the middle https.

    Honestly Tor is probably the best option. Tor can effectively bypass censorship and can even spoof traffic to hide the fact that you are using Tor.

    The other option is OpenVPN on port 443

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    • fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I use it as my default. My OS is windows 11. Saudi censorship is directly from the ISP, unless you’re using a VPN or a proxy, no way around it. I tolerate using VPNs and tor, but it’s still frustrating. Hence, the post on mildlyinfuriating :)

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would boot from a Tails USB instead of installing everything to your main OS

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