Like, from inside China to the outside, but a bilateral solution would be fine with me, too.
China blocks most IPs from foreign cloud providers like AWS or Digital Ocean. And if I am not mistaken, they can also block some VPN protocols, but I am not sure which exactly.
Not really, you need a license and you can host openvpn at tcp 443, but chances are they’ll try to track you down and make your life unpleasant.
When I was there I vps bumped through Hk, that’s probably harder now.
Depends - how many family members do you have that the PRC might use against you? or who would miss you if the PRC black bagged you?
VPN’s aren’t illegal in china, and they don’t go about random people who use them. Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.
VPNs as a technology might not be illegal but circumventing the firewall certainly is.
Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.
This is a bit of a misunderstanding about how things work in an authoritarian system. Sure, you might fly under the radar for awhile, but if you call attention to yourself (say, by getting caught trying to bypass the government firewall) and you are not high-profile, then it is very low-effort to make you disappear. Few will notice, and those that do will stay silent out of fear.
If you are more high-profile you still get black-bagged, you just get released after, with your behavior suitably modified.
Naomi Wu no longer uploads to YouTube.
I have a private vpn in korea, i could connect to that vpn even through china’s hotel wifi
Could browse as per normal with abysmal internet speed
Could browse as per normal with abysmal internet speed
Of course. It’s because they had to catch and write down every single byte with a pencil on paper, then decrypt it, understand it, report the funny ones to a boss, who nodded slowly and silently and then they typed it in again on the other side.
/s
You want to look into v2ray for self hosting. For example with https://github.com/hiddify/Hiddify-Manager
Only if you want a visit from the thought police.
They do not visit you. You do not visit them. You visit bad places.
It will work for a bit, then they will detect VPN traffic and just block the destination ip for good. Any ip you will use will be shortly unreachable for you, so be prepared to that.
It’s possible for a while but there is a whack-a-mole game if you’re doing anything they would care about. So you will have to keep moving it around. VPS forums will have some info.
I don’t know if it will work, but it’s possible to tunnel all your traffic through a VPS using SSH and a piece of software called sshuttle.
They are prepared for such ideas, and you should assume that they are better than you.
And there are hundreds if not thousands of them, plus a lot of automated tooling.
