So I was looking to move away from ProtonVPN at some point, but I’m not sure if the other options have something similar to the Stealth protocol. Can’t find much information on their websites either except one or two sentences about censorship circumvention and not sure how this would translate to real world usage. Anybody have any experiences with this that they would like to share?
iVPN supports V2Ray which obfuscates VPN traffic to make it look more normal to an ISP.
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What kind of restrictions specifically are you seeking to overcome? If it’s something like China’s GFW, then neither of those are likely to be reliable.
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No. nothing as complicated as that. WireGuard/OpenVPN with UDP/TCP are blocked.
Mullvad now has Shadowsocks over Wireguard support on Android and Desktop. This is in addition to Shadowsocks with OpenVPN on PC and UDP over TCP (or the other way arround).
In my experience, a few months ago, Shadowsocks -OVPN worked great, while the Android connection was unreliable. It often disconnected and reconnected.
When I say great, I am talking of having a decent connection. Don’t except high speed.
BTW, there is a Github repo about censorship circumvention. There, in the Issues, you can look for article about GFW.
In my experience, iVPN didn’t work well on Android. In fact, it was stuck in an endless conection cycle. Enabling Multi-Hop sometime solved that problem.
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IVPN’s reliability can depend on the server you connect to. Check their status page to make sure you’re connecting to a server which doesn’t have issues.
The issue wasn’t whith their server, but rather the initial connection to it. Please understand that those issues can vary per device, but on a Samsung phone, IVPN was basically unusable.
Is that brand new? I can’t find it in the app
My response was wrong, see below response by @Encounter5729 for the correct one.
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It’s not a one-click feature, and requires some setup: Shadowsocks for Android
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In my experience, and having a Samsung device in my possession currently, I’ve never had any issues with IVPN disconnecting or being unusable; it was stable for me. Perhaps it may be an issue on your device.
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Did you have a highly performant censorship such as the GFW to overcome ?
Plus, Mullvad worked fine, so it wasn’t my device.
I don’t quite understand what you mean? Are you asking whether I’m in a heavily censored country like China with the Great Firewall which I need to overcome as an major obstacle? Could you elaborate?
I was just saying that it worked fine for me. I’m glad that Mullvad VPN worked for you. IVPN is more expensive than Mullvad VPN, unless you pay for a three-year plan, which I did.
Yup, since that’s why OP is asking for censorship resistance.
I don’t think OP is actually looking for something quite as serious as GFW bypass.
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Then Proton could be fine.
May I take the opportunity to ask the same question about Windscribe?
Evaluating using their services.
They have Obfsproxy for Windows, Linux and macOS but not for mobile.
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You mean v2ray support by ivpn? It’s on mobile: Obfuscation with V2Ray on iOS - IVPN Help