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kgeist on Jan 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireG...

I guess it depends on what sites you want to visit using VPN. People here in Russia openly use VPN to visit Instagram etc., and no one seems to have an issue with that. But if you want to read some opposition sites, however... Now that's some gray area.

EasyMark on Jan 20, 2024 [–]

If the VPN is working then they wouldn't know if you're going to instagram or fuckrussianoppression.org tho

gh02t on Jan 21, 2024 | [–]

That ambiguity is beneficial, they can simply say you did whatever they want to say with the VPN usage as a pretext.

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