What to do if your government blocks VPN access?

One way to access websites that are restricted at the national level is to use a VPN. However, sometimes even VPN evasion is blocked. In Indonesia, where large-scale protests have erupted , VPN access to X (formerly Twitter) and Discord has also been blocked. Hacker News, a social media news site, has received a wealth of information on how to further circumvent these strict blocks.

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054260

_verandaguy , who worked on censorship evasion at a VPN company in the early 2020s, recommends using censorship evasion systems such as VPN and Tor, as well as implementing an obfuscation layer that can hide the actual use of VPN or Tor. He particularly recommends obfs4 , a tool that can hide the actual use of Tor. More information on obfs4 can be found at the link below.

Tor Project | Bridge
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/

Shapeshifter , developed by the non-profit Operator Foundation , is also a useful obfuscation layer.

GitHub - OperatorFoundation/shapeshifter-dispatcher: Shapeshifter Dispatcher converts Pluggable Transports that implement the Go API from the Pluggable Transports 2.1 specification into proxies usable by applications. Several proxy modes are provided, including proxying of both TCP and UDP traffic.
https://github.com/OperatorFoundation/shapeshifter-dispatcher

_verandaguy also recommends Mullvad as a 'trustworthy and competent VPN company.' He said that the VPN companies he worked for often used Mullvad's approach as a reference.

Mullvad VPN - Free Your Internet
https://mullvad.net/ja

Joshryandavis , who claims to have lived in China, argues that commercial services are destined to be blocked eventually, and recommends building your own SOCKS5 proxy server using AWS's free EC2 tier. He also notes that access to GitHub is not blocked in China, and that a large amount of information collected by Chinese volunteers is publicly available on GitHub.

nine_k cites ' XRay ' and ' VLESS ' as censorship bypass technologies that are still effective in China. The following link explains the process of setting up a server and using XRay to bypass censorship.

Xray REALITY tutorial | cscot
https://cscot.pages.dev/2023/03/02/Xray-REALITY-tutorial/