Signal stopped working in Russia even with the "bypass censorship" option

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From today. Tested with several ISPs. Source: my experience.
Previously, the “bypass censorship” option helped.

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Try Molly + Orbot proxy mode

Molly: Settings → Network → Proxy → Tor via Orbot.

Orbot: Settings → power user mode → next click “…” → Apps → Molly.

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Too complicated. Especially for my contacts. We’ll just go back to WhatsApp.

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Oh isn’t Tor also banned from Russia?

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Yes.

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Try SimpleX.

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That’s unfortunate.

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Maybe keybase?

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owned by zoom

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Yeah but I know of a few groups that is uses Keybase that isn’t so lets say “not so popular with governments”. And is probably better than Telegram and WhatsApp

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Does it work with a VPN ?

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Yes (there is no reason to believe otherwise).

Session also banned.

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No better alternative being available, you can try Delta Chat or Telegram’s secret chats.

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This is why Signal really need to invest in advanced censorship obfuscation like Shadowsocks.

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You can also use Molly with integrated TOR network

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Today, suddenly, Signal resumed its work. I don’t know why.

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tor is banned. Built-in bridges are unstable.

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Not snowflake mode, It’s always working for all my friends in Russia

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for russia, lran, china, just use hiddify.com to bypass the isp network detect, it based on singbox and mihomo, can self-hosted or just paid almost 1-5 usd / month to use third party hosting, here listed many third party service provider(Is a chinese website, need to translate but it available in russia)

for android / free solution, MahsaNG it works too, but delay a bit higher(for russia)
simliar project is much, they are all open source(whatever frontend or backend) and it all deverloped for only bypass censorship, for some extent, they are safer than proton/mullvad/ivpn (for example: hiddify support tls fragment, hysteria2/vless encrypt protocols, for hysteria2/vless, it basically its super secure, newest shadowsocks-like protocols)

for pro player, v2ray is a better software it included all protocols and have stronger custom

whatever singal, SimpleX or others, just through hiddify to connect proxy and use it as well

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