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Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship
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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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This is why you don't buy into closed-garden ecosystems like this. If you're on iOS, there's nothing you can do about it, you're at their mercy. Android has great support for side loading. There's really only one choice if you care about freedom.
iOS supports VPN out of the gate. Apps just make it easier to configure. Please don’t spew divisive misinformation, regardless if this is ignorant to the facts or otherwise.
Normal VPNs don't work in Russia, you need one that's masked as usual traffic now.
You can get a free VPS from AWS or Oracle Cloud and set up Wireguard on it
It's blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client
Do they really block all connections to popular cloud providers? That also blocks a bunch of "innocent" websites and services, doesn't it?
They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website
VPN over an HTTP proxy then?
Or WireGuard TCP over UDP obfuscation?
I don't know if those work, and whether they continue to work against a state adversary. When you find a new workaround, there are ways to detect it
Reality is actually fairly hard to block because the VPN sends a hello to the camouflage website. It uses the connection to the camouflage website to pretend it's sending data from it, when it's actually sending data from the real destination.
It's blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client