# Shadowsocks vs DAITA

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/shadowsocks-vs-daita/40552
**Category:** General
**Tags:** software
**Created:** 2026-09-08T22:30:43Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @blibly — 2026-09-08T22:30:43Z

Both protocols seem to serve the purpose of obscuring packet data. Does one render the other obsolete?

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## Post 2 by @TheDoc — 2026-09-09T00:27:59Z

No, they’re completely different. [Shadowsocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks) is used to circumvent internet censorship, [DAITA](https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita) is used to hide what you’re doing over your VPN such as which websites you’re visiting.

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## Post 3 by @hydride — 2026-09-10T04:53:55Z

Shadowsocks is obsolete now, it’s very easy to detect.

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## Post 4 by @JaneDoe — 2026-09-13T16:13:53Z

True.

vless-based protocol is one of the best now.

see my other post for the reasons:

> [@ProtonVPN has China now](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/protonvpn-has-china-now/40462/16):
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> GFW blocks VPN and proxies, and they are extremely good at it. The wall CAN detect and block ProtonVPN, even in its stealth mode. ProtonVPN and Tor Webtunnel did not consider advanced encrypted traffic analysis in their design, but the Chinese GFW has been performing ETA to detect proxies for a decade. There is another TLS-based proxy protocol called Trojan that did not mitigate this, and it was detected and blocked in China ever since 2022. See [https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurit…](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/xue-fingerprinting)