Russia has started indiscriminately blocking all OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

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  • streisand

    Discontinued Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

  • Unfortunately, that's to the Great Firewall of China, there has been a lot of resources put in to fingerprint VPNs and block them by state actors.

    Fortunately, however, there is equally years of some of the smartest minds on the planet working to bypass Chinese censorship, so there are some great OpenVPN alternatives.

    I really encourage you to look into something like Shadowsocks which Chinese people have found great success in using over the last several years.

    It's quite sad that projects like Streisand[0] were archived, but I'm sure there are other alternatives that might make it just as easy to roll onto a server.

    [0] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

  • outline-apps

    Outline Client and Manager, developed by Jigsaw. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.

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  • headscale

    An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

  • You can always use headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

  • amneziawg-go

    AmneziaWG VPN protocol

  • amnezia-client

    Amnezia VPN Client (Desktop+Mobile)

  • Some good news amidst this doom and gloom: I just installed AmneziaVPN (https://amnezia.org) on my VPS and it works great so far -- and pretty fast as well.

  • Xray-ansible

    Deploy XTLS/Xray with Ansible

  • I’ve written an [Ansible playbook](https://github.com/pilosus/Xray-ansible) to automate XRay installation on a Linux machine.

  • wstunnel

    Tunnel all your traffic over Websocket or HTTP2 - Bypass firewalls/DPI - Static binary available

  • Shameless plug, there is also wstunnel (i am its author) https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel/, hope you enjoy.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • hans

    IP over ICMP (by friedrich)

  • I highly recommend hans to bypass such shenanigans: https://github.com/friedrich/hans

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  • Hey there! Lots of experience with this having lived in China for 2 years. I recommend you look into xray-core or v2ray.

    https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core

    https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

    Here are my configs: https://github.com/acheong08/notes/tree/main/xray

  • v2ray-core

    A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions. (by v2fly)

  • Hey there! Lots of experience with this having lived in China for 2 years. I recommend you look into xray-core or v2ray.

    https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core

    https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

    Here are my configs: https://github.com/acheong08/notes/tree/main/xray

  • notes

    notes (by acheong08)

  • Hey there! Lots of experience with this having lived in China for 2 years. I recommend you look into xray-core or v2ray.

    https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core

    https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

    Here are my configs: https://github.com/acheong08/notes/tree/main/xray

  • hysteria

    Hysteria is a powerful, lightning fast and censorship resistant proxy.

  • As far as I know https://github.com/apernet/hysteria is the latest proxy protocol (used in China). Maybe try this

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