Russians are engineering their way around the Kremlin’s Great Firewall blockade

Bhavesh patel
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Internet censorship in Russia has turned into an engineering race, with users deploying increasingly exotic network configurations to stay ahead of state-level blocking. VPNs don’t get past the digital Iron Curtain anymore.

Many digital services are blocked. Commercial VPNs – disrupted. Even popular VPN tunneling protocols are detected and throttled down or blocked. So what do you do to access the wider internet without being cuffed?

You build your own proxy, disguised as ordinary web traffic, that returns genuine responses from Microsoft or any other popular service when inspected by censors.

This is just one of the methods users in Russia are sharing.

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