I would switch to routing everything through tor. And if a service blocks that, I'll stop using that service. However, I'm also at an age where I dream of living alone in the canadian wilderness, reading books until the next long winter takes me. So you shouldn't listen to my advice.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Tor Snowflake is virtually impossible to block
I think the OP meant websites blocking Tor, not their ISP. Most sites using Cloudflare won't work when connected to Tor.
Not working in China most of the time
Oooh, what’s that?
I'm installing tor snowflake on every unused server my company has, alongside torrents (actually using Tribler to help anonymize other users)
Actually blocking VPNs is pretty tough. Almost all internet traffic is encrypted now and any of that can be a tunnel.
Countries like Russia block them quite successfully. The commercial ones generally have their lists of servers publicly available, allowing to just copy and paste.
Why not outlaw them for individuals and give a pass for corporations or rich people ?
Keep using them.
They're banned in plenty of countries already. You just need to use tunneling modes that hide them.
Yeah, guess we will have to put up with really slow internet speeds in the future
If not an outright ban then a soft ban is likely. There are already many apps/websites that don't allow VPN traffic. It may get to the point where we have to self-host our own VPNs through a VPS or something like that.
You can forward your VPS traffic through WARP. Most of those websites allow accelerators
It’s not an easy thing to do. Torrents of copyrighted stuff are illegal yet we still have sites galore for them.
VPN companies will move operations to specific locations and countries that accept them and many countries will happily take them in. The only sure fire way to deal with it then will be to block those countries which won’t happen either.
Most people here talking about individuals using VPNs but businesses and industry use them too and are probably going to be bigger drivers against the ban. No vpn for your financial institutions?
It would be trivially easy to allow billionaires and corporations the ability to continue using them while blocking their use from citizens.
I’ll use them anyway. See you all in jail.
use a VPN to download them
Yeah, good luck effectively banning VPNs lol
That depends entirely on every individual some may try to go completely offline, some may try other ways to stay private and some probably won't give a shit and be like "i have nothing to hide", i like it when i turn on my PC or use my phone and i know there is a VPN between me and big brother and even though i have nothing to hide that doesn't mean they should have access to every aspect of my life and then sell that information to Bezos so he can notify me that they have a sale on bath towels and that already happens occasionally because we have an Alexa in the kitchen and that bitch is always listening, i don't use it but wife and daughter like it.
They block VPNs primarily through exit node ips, don't they? If so, I'd just self host a VPN on a cheap VPS.
Self hosted VPNs on Amazon? Change IP/protocol/server daily?
You only need to change when the censor tags your IP as sus. If you already mask well enough it looks like you're just another server for a website