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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see posts from other instances but all content hosted on blahaj.zone like media won’t load. That includes images videos etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let’s see if the Lemmy devs can build a media proxy. Federated systems are an amazing way to bypass censorship, as the government would have to play cat and mouse as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So sorry to hear that. There are probably technical ways around this, but it seems like they are illegal in the UAE.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah there’s VPNs, but it’s a constant game of cat and mouse to find one that works. They use deep packet inspection to analyse internet traffic and scramble anything that resembles a VPN.

I even tried renting a server and running OpenVPN on it to have my own VPN server, but that started getting scrambled in the first week of use.

Sucks subscribing to a VPN then finding out it doesn’t work like a week later, which has happened to me more times than I can count.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried something like this https://github.com/dmitriykuptsov/soho-vpn-over-tls/
yet?

Or maybe one of these: https://github.com/topics/deep-packet-inspection

Just some ideas. Sorry you have to deal with an extra shitty government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have not, but those are some neat resources you shared that warrant looking into 👀. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Might not be useful, but v2ray might work if open vpn fails. Docs should have and English option in the corner.