In some regions of Russia government shuts down mobile Internet to "prevent drones attack". And recently, they introduced whitelists with only "trusted services"(like yandex, vk, banking apps etc). On home internet it doesn't work. These lists work only when authorities shut down mobile internet. While restrictions are working, the sites not from whitelist are unable. But is there any ways to circumvent it if they decide to turn on whitelists forever? Will vless, vmess, and other stealth proxy protocols be able to give access to the free internet?
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Yes, we can confirm that this is actually happening and we have received some reports.
This form of restricting access is the hardest one to bypass. We have some workarounds, but this will highly depend on how whitelists are implemented. For example, if they will be implemented the same way as in Turkmenistan there will be basically no reliable option to bypass this. It won't matter which protocol you are using.
However, the current implementation is different, blocks are temporary and only in some cities.
One possible workaround is to have multi-hop with entry server from Russia that is not blocked and exit server in another country + using SNI spoofing. This is problematic because we don't want to have any infrastructure presence in Russia.
The main issue with this approach is that entry node can get easily blocked and hosting providers in Russia are also supposed to block access to restricted resources, which means that they could force hosting providers to use whitelists as well.