After Blocking 450-Plus VPNs, the Russian State Discovered an Unpleasant Truth...

After blocking more than 450 VPNs in the country, the Russian state discovered something unpleasant: some of them are impossible to block in principle. Their traffic is indistinguishable from ordinary traffic, and it cannot be identified without also bringing down half of the legal internet.

And so this week the Ministry of Digital Development came up with a solution. Not to admit that the idea had failed, but to force hosting providers, manually, with servers and raids, to hunt for “disguised” VPNs among legitimate addresses. At the same time, by the market’s own forecasts, a third of clients will flee the country for foreign providers. Well then, the usual trade-off: destroy what works in order to fail to catch what cannot be caught.

And what cannot be caught will remain uncaught. Skip VPN is exactly one of those unaffected by this raid: for the filtering system it is indistinguishable from ordinary traffic, and it works even where only a “whitelist” has been left, across all operators.

Three days free to try via the link.

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