zapret VS Tor

You can read about it here: https://github.com/bol-van/zapret/blob/master/docs/readme.eng.md

Has anyone managed to bypass DPI on their iOS devices locally (without connecting to overseas VPN)? It seems like almost every other popular OS has had a publicly released method (Windows, MacOS (and Linux), lots of others for Linux, even Android), and only the iOS community seem to have no interest, or at least public interest, in local DPI bypassing. Achieving local bypassing would allow for access to all the ISP-blocked websites, without the speed penalty that comes with a foreign VPN host.

linux noob here, I have tried installing zepret but it doesnt seem to work. Any help regarding its installation will be appreciated. changing my DNS from openDNS to nextDNS helps me access the websites i want. but websites like youtube become a lot slower when loading videos.

There is a similar project that supports Linux, but its much more focused on Russian censorship.

https://github.com/bol-van/zapret

Are you looking for Zapret: https://github.com/bol-van/zapret https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/a6zks7/pairing_a_pihole_with_goodbyedpizapret/

Most browsers now a days support DNS over HTTPS to encrypt the SNI /Client Hello(Server Name Indication). And then there are tools like this one to circumvent DPI. I wanted to know the difference between the two. Won't Encrypting the client Hello/SNI suffice to bypass the such censorship?

You don't need a paid VPN. goodbyedpi, zapret and DPITunnel will unblock almost everything blocked by the government (porn and piracy).

You could try downloading TOR (www.torproject.org) but some people prefer not to use it because some people think that the TOR people are (bad? cheaters?) 'not good'.

The only difference Private Relay makes to this sequence is that it hides your IP from the website you're visiting in the networking phase by acting as a proxy. This is similar to what TOR does by routing your network traffic through multiple nodes before letting it reach its final destination. This process does not hide which websites you visit from your ISP itself IF they also act as your DNS provider, which is almost universally true.

One of the solutions I've seen mentioned is effectively the TOR network on the blockchain. While this type of solution would not guarantee anonymity it would at least make it more difficult for people to "follow the money" through the network just as the TOR browser makes it difficult for the FBI to follow your web traffic.

The TOR browser (https://www.torproject.org/) will encrypt your request and send it trough three separate servers before it ends up at the destination. It's what whistleblowers use to send info to journalists.

If you need that level of online anonymity you should use a dedicated tool with a solid track record (https://www.torproject.org/, or https://geti2p.net/en/) -- both are free to use by the way.

I use the Tor Browser & launcher direct from the torproject out of preference but the torbrowser launcher is available in the repos.

Tor (probably what you're looking for)

To access onion sites, follow the documentation in the Tor Project. That will tell you everything you should know and it is relatively simple to set up.

Please consider to host the infrastructure on Tor onion services.