In light of all the web censorship governments are doing these days, I'd like to know a way to evade these IP blocks without having to pay extra for a VPN, and ideally without needing to be tied to a specific web browser like Tor.

Could always use a SOCKS proxy. There are free VPNs.

>>106131552
>There are free VPNs
Can any of those be used without installing their specific VPN client software on the machine I'm trying to browse with? I'd like to make things as OS agnostic as possible, which is hard to do if I'm tied to a proprietary VPN client.

https://geph.io/en

foss, the free plan has servers from canada, france and poland, cross-platform.

>>106131586
there's vpngate.net its run by a japanese uni and has a choice of servers and client software.

>>106131552
what is the catch with this protocol? does it work with https?

>>106131703
Thank you, anon. This is very helpful.

>>106131792
BROOOO LOOK IT UP YOU HAVE THE POWER OF THE INTERNET AT YOUR DISPOSAL IT WOULD BE FASTER ASWELL HOW ARE YOU THIS RETARDED

>>106131810
it would have been easier for you to write yes or no instead of writing allat

>>106131830
Teach a man to fish or whatever

>>106131842
Nta, but telling him whether or not there are any fish to catch in the water instead of making sit there and catch nothing all day doesn't stop him from learning.

>>106131863
yes you will get search results if you look it up
is that what you meant by if there are any fish to catch
otherwise your analogy doesn't make sense

>>106131879
Is this an ego thing?

tor

>>106131897
want to explain?

>>106131653
>rust
fuck off
>>106131520 (OP)
5€/month for mullvad, or pay a few pennies for SOCKS5 proxies (ideally residential)
if the west figures out how to do deep packet inspection (DPI) like pocкoмнaдзop, theres zapret and byedpi (aka ciadpi) to get around this, plus mullvad's DAITA (has to be implemented server-side, so that won't work with any random proxy/vpn)

>>106131520 (OP)
>tied to a specific web browser like tor
tor doesn't tie you to a specific web browser, start your tor daemon and use socks://127.0.0.1:9050 as your proxy in any browser (or any other program)
for programs that don't support proxies out of the box, theres proxychains-ng or torsocks
otherwise, set your $http_proxy, $HTTPS_PROXY, and $ALL_PROXY environment variables, that should work for most things.

>>106131906
>>106131586
also its worth mentioning, you should not use anything that forces you to use a specific vpnshit client. stick to openvpn/wireguard.
some vpns offer free (as in freedom) clients with extra features or convenience that isn't in wireguard/openvpn, like DPI evasion. those are fine, but you should actually audit them and make sure there isn't anything sketchy about it. the rule of thumb is, if you can't compile it yourself, its jewish.

>>106131901
It was a yes or no question. Its harder for you to have this whole argument than it is to say yes or no, and having it doesn't benefit you at all.

>>106131983
I can't answer a question I don't understand. Now you are just being malicious

>>106131992
I meant the original question: "what is the catch with this protocol? does it work with https?"

>>106132000
If I answered then it would positively reward them and promote them to ask more easily searchable questions in the future. If thats all this board is, then whats the point? I already have /sqt/ blocked for that, I don't want it everywhere.

>>106132000
socks5 is a proxy protocol, it does work if http/https comes out at the end, and afaik it works with plain tcp and udp too

>>106132012
Its not all this board is, but its not unreasonable to ask questions when search engines are as unusable as they are in current year. A lot of the time it is easier to ask a real human being question than it is to get a bunch of unrelated results from a search engine or a bunch of lies from an AI.
>>106132013
Thank you, anon.

>>106132032
you seem to be saying that social media/discussion sites/whatever are now the only way to get valid information. this is far from the truth. for example, wikipedia provides a good explanation, and keep in mind they have two versions if the standard is too complicated for someone (though careful reading is all you need), replace the "en" subdomain with "simple"

>>106132032
thats a less stupid question you indirectly asked
>how do i get a working search engine
SearxNG. there are a bunch of public instances at https://searx.space, sometimes instance X works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes other ones work.
the best thing you can do is to self host your own searxng instance, because it just scrapes normie search engines, removes garbage, and combines all the results for you. normie search engines like jewgle/duckduckgo/yandex LOVE to rate limit you and bombard you with captchas if there are too many searches (like with public instances that are used by hundreds of people), so self hosting should solve this problem.
anyway, here are the instances i usually use (they work most of the time)
https://searxng.ru/
https://searx.bndkt.io/
https://cia.govt.hu/searxng
https://search.nerdvpn.de/
also, if you self host your own instance, you can blacklist or rewrite/redirect specific sites. this is very useful for getting rid of all the r*ddit shit links that fill up half of my search results, despite r*ddit blocking my IP just because i refuse to create a good-goy account, i love when retards lock information behind proprietary shit forums nobody wants to use that randomly block your IP from even viewing anything.
you can also replace all r*ddit/twitter/etc.. links with freetard frontends to those sites, that allow you to view them without getting raped by JS and IP blocks.

>>106132052
wikipedia is full of bullshit, i prefer to rely on https://edramatica.com/ for more accurate information that suits my bias.

>>106131520 (OP)
Mullvad. $5/mo

>>106132104
i have reported your post

>>106131520 (OP)
Free ones farm your data, that's how they stay free. You're better off paying for one that has a believable no-logs policy (as it's up to you to really believe it or not), so IVPN or Mullvad would probably be the only good ones. IVPN has more servers than Mullvad for what that's worth.

>>106131906
7 for airvpn and you get torrents/port forwarding

>>106132153
i get torrents with mullvad too, no port forwarding anymore sadly (but that's not strictly required for torrents)

Literally everyone in the UK is using a VPN now and the OSA has effectively achieved jack shit. Please continue to make fools out of those in your government bongs I love watching it.

>>106132198
But will it work though? Most sites block VPNs and Meta is especially faggy about it.

>>106132220
If enough people do it, yes it will. Not every site, only the major ones and can't you bypass those by changing your DNS settings or changing the IP address correct? Not terribly difficult for normies to learn.

>>106132220
stop using normie garbage, problem solved
anything that blocks proxies/vpns is literally just trying to datamine you

>>106132242
No, I mean the detect VPN usage based on the IP, the DNS won't matter.

>>106132262
It seems like a lot of shit these days blocks it, which is annoying. Even fucking 4chan blocks it.

>>106132267
buy a pass or find better residential proxies
and yes, 4cuck is trying to datamine you.

>>106132262
what would you recommend then? What isn't " normie garbage" to you?

>>106132274
>buy a pass
I would if it could be anonymous

>>106132275
literally the internet from the 90s
no JS, no 20MiB sites full of bullshit
just take a look at the state of the modern web:
>visit website
>cloudflare challenge
>cloudlfare challenge solved, refresh
>temporary placeholders
>content loads in
>when content is 80% loaded, it suddenly redirects to an entry portal
>we use cookies, please accept
>accept, it redirects back
>temporary placeholders
>content loads in
>content fades out
>overlay appears
>please verify with your EU digital Id
>click on it
>redirects to digital id portal
>this websites wants the following information: "social security number, your phone number, a dick pic"
>accept
>redirects back
>temporary placeholders
>content loads in

>>106132285
you are already not anonymous from 4cuck admins, if you buy a pass afaik you can pay with crypto, go buy crypto from a no-KYC exchange, make sure to pay in XMR

>>106132298
>doesn't accept monero
hmmmm

>>106132313
jewish, i know.
you have to take your XMR and throw it into a no-KYC exchange to get something out that gets accepted by 4cuck, just make sure not to do anything retarded (i.e. not using proxies for the exchange, having it tied to anything else, or even your real-life identity, main email, a wallet you use for other shit, etc...)

>>106132189
Most of them stalls or gets very slow with mullvad, my experience.

>>106132426
works fine for me, some torrents stall because nobody else port forwards
my seeding speed is pretty decent (512KiB/s), download speed is about 4M/s

>>106131520 (OP)
I just spent the last few hours setting up wireguard on a cheap VPS in the netherlands, ironically it was actually faster and easier to get a VPS using crypto on TOR than it has been to try and find one on clearweb that doesn't want my whole identity and KYC upfront for a staggering 1CPU, 2GB of ram and 1gbps internet connection worth of power.

did the uk or eu already start banning 4chan?

>>106133327
I think 4chan is exempt as it's a forum rather than a social media site. No UK users have had any issues getting on, but they have with Reddit and Facebook.

>>106133419
im not sure why the rulers dont just get 4chan taken down. they could easily just make up some pretense as an excuse to take this site down permanently. they have a reason to let this site stay up, even though its probably the biggest community in opposition to them. still this site is heavily censored by jannies and shittified by shills, but its about the best bastion of free speech on the internet.

>>106133564
My guess would be that it keeps the retardation all in once place, rather than having a bunch of clones popup and become more difficult to find or censor. I've heard /pol/ seriously glows and I can believe it.

>>106131792
Works fine with HTTPS. I used to torrent with a SOCKS5 proxy when I had a shitty ISP that sent nastygrams.

none can post on 4chan tho

need the ecker

>>106131520 (OP)
>without having to pay extra for a VPN
Genuinely, why the fuck can't people just pay 3-5 bucks a month for this? I live in Ruzzia and this still is pretty much negligible price for comfortable use of the internet, it can't be that much for a first worlder, right?

>>106135167
Do you have to use 4chan Pass to post here?
And doesn't Russia go hard at VPNs and jail people for using them?

>>106135178
>Do you have to use 4chan Pass to post here?
Most of the time I post from my own IP, I set up split tunneling so I can open 4chan pages but send replies without the VPN, it's sorta partially blocked here. There are proxies that work though, fuck paying for pass lol
>And doesn't Russia go hard at VPNs and jail people for using them?
Nope, not yet at least. Right now they go hard with DPI and black/grey lists, most usual protocols like Wireguard and openvpn no longer work (even shadowsocks is dead pretty much) for outside connections and plenty of datacenters are black listed, but currently it's possible to circumvent. VLESS works great.

>>106135167
because in a democratic society you expect your government to not actively make your life arbitrarily worse

In Russia Tor only works with bridges or snowflake plugin. But the main torproject domain is blocked, so you have to get bridges by sending an email to them or get them from the telegram bot. I would strongly suggest to keep all the backups of Tor Browser, bridges, binaries etc just in case.

Personally, I use arti binary (the new Tor in rust) because it has less connectivity issues with snowflake. All of it works as a socks5 proxy.

I tried buying a bunch of VPNs, but they all get blocked eventually no matter what. Looks like Tor is the only solution that has been working for over a decade for me.

>>106135797
just move out of russia retard
they're not going to give the oil money to you so what do you gain by staying

>>106135809
>just move out bro
great advice

>>106135824
Do you project your life for the rest of time will be worse if you do so.

ofc its hard, but you speak english, many countries have better wages then you can get naturalized

>>106131520 (OP)
Name one method that works on a phone.

>>106135830
Fuck off globohomo cuckold