The multinational has removed dozens of apps, even though the Kremlin’s censorship body did not order the move. These services, half-permitted by the government, enable people in Russia to access social networks and independent media

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    Normal VPNs don’t work in Russia, you need one that’s masked as usual traffic now.

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        It’s blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client

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            They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website

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                I don’t know if those work, and whether they continue to work against a state adversary. When you find a new workaround, there are ways to detect it

                Reality is actually fairly hard to block because the VPN sends a hello to the camouflage website. It uses the connection to the camouflage website to pretend it’s sending data from it, when it’s actually sending data from the real destination.

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        It’s blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client