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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You know tor is still a thing? It is also used to bypass the "great" firewall of china.

[–] Shizu@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

There are numerous VPNs still working great inside mainland China. I have multiple friends who I talk to over Signal which is normally blocked. It's just a matter of finding the right provider. Also hosting a VPS outside China as your own VPN can work nicely too - and doesn't come with the performance hit when using Tor.

[–] free@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"From March 1, 2024, an order will come into force to block VPN services providing access to sites banned in Russia," Sheikin was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA.

I assume this means it's regarding outgoing communications, for censorship purposes most likely. I'd be surprised if they were blocking incoming VPN traffic, and I don't think the Russian government has an issue with Yandex operating.

[–] free@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

tx bud. hopefully we can still connect to Russia from our VPN not being in Russia 🤞

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Demand for VPN services soared after Russia restricted access to some Western social media after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

Senator Artem Sheikin said an order from the Roskomnadzor watchdog would come into force on March 1 that would block VPNs.

"From March 1, 2024, an order will come into force to block VPN services providing access to sites banned in Russia," Sheikin was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA.

Phone calls to the number listed by Roskomnadzor as its press service were answered by a voice message with the Bobby McFerrin song "Don't Worry Be Happy".

Sheikin said that it was particularly important to block access to Meta Platforms (META.O), which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

"I would like to note that it is especially important to restrict citizens' access to the products of Meta which is recognised as an extremist organization," Sheikin added.


The original article contains 216 words, the summary contains 152 words. Saved 30%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

Usually this bot is pretty good, but this time the paragraph

Phone calls to the number listed by Roskomnadzor as its press service were answered by a voice message with the Bobby McFerrin song "Don't Worry Be Happy".

comes out of nowhere, while the original article does provide context.

[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Well, most of popular in the world VPN services are already blocked. Even such simple things like Cloudflare's warp doesn't work, although it still possible to use it if you generate wireguard config and change endpoint, but there's a possibility that the wg protocol will be blocked in the future. The best way to bypass censorship in Russia right now is to use Chinese solutions for gfw circumvention such as shadowsocks/vmess/vless/trojan/etc. Or one can use self-hosted VPN servers, but it's very hard to find a way for paying for cloud services that are located outside of Russia.

[–] Timbo303@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This should totally be the error they give you when using a vpn in russia. Its a shame russia government is so stupid they are on the brink of booming piracy this will likely stall efforts if every vpn is blocked.