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Comment by gonzalohm

9 hours ago

How would they even do that? A VPN is just a remote machine. Anything can be a VPN

They can make it impractical for most people by repeatedly banning VPNs by IP address. Users have to pay upfront to figure out if their chosen VPN even works, then it could still break later.

And some including mullvad already accept payment in crypto, there will always be some dodgy VPN company in some dodgy jurisdiction that will take your BTC in exchange for an account.

I don’t think that will stop them trying though

Like in Russia

    - drop wireguard / OpenVPN packets crossing the country border
    - analyze https traffic to detect traffic patterns not matching https fully and block such connections

  • The state of the art, "xray-reality", is not blockable. It's a legit tls connection with data smuggled inside it.

    • Are you taking from the experience that this is not blockeable in Russia?

      EDIT: I might be confusing vless/xray/reality but seems like there are no problems to block it based on ip reputation + tls fingerprint + amount of connections https://habr.com/ru/articles/1044396/

      Of course this would block some valid websites but when has government cared about that

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