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WireGuard and OpenVPN are blocked by Iran's filtering infrastructure. VLESS Reality is the protocol that survives. Here is how it works and who ships it.
PTA blocked the major commercial VPNs in December 2025 and carriers now pattern-match VLESS, Shadowsocks, and WireGuard. Here is what still works.
BTK throttles WireGuard and OpenVPN handshakes, X gets blocked during elections, and Wikipedia stayed dark for three years. Here is what works.
Vietnam blocked Telegram on June 2, 2025, and the block has held into 2026. Decree 53 forces platform identity verification. Here is what works today.
WireGuard, OpenVPN, and basic Shadowsocks are all detected by the GFW in 2026. The protocols that survive are VLESS Reality with Vision and NaiveProxy.
VLESS Reality vs Shadowsocks AEAD vs Trojan-GFW vs Hysteria 2 vs NaiveProxy vs TUIC. Which protocol survives DPI in Russia, China, Iran in 2026, and why.
TSPU blocks WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, plain VLESS, and Shadowsocks. What TSPU does technically, why VLESS Reality with Vision survives, and what is next.
VLESS Reality forwards a real TLS certificate from a public site, so DPI sees ordinary HTTPS. How it works and how it compares to other protocols.
Vietnam blocked Telegram on June 2, 2025 under Decree 53. The block has held into 2026. Here is what changed and how to get Telegram back in minutes.
Turkey filters VPNs at the protocol level. Standard WireGuard and OpenVPN sessions get detected and throttled. Here's what's actually blocked, how Türk Telekom and BTK do it, and why VLESS Reality is the option that gets through.
OpenVPN is fingerprinted in 30 seconds. WireGuard is blocked in Russia, China, and Iran. Here are the protocols that still work in 2026, ranked by effectiveness against state-level DPI.
Shadowsocks made censorship circumvention mainstream. But China learned to detect encrypted random noise. VLESS Reality takes a different approach: look like normal HTTPS, not like nothing.
DPI systems inspect your traffic payloads, not just headers. Russia's TSPU detects OpenVPN in 30 seconds. Here's how DPI works, which protocols it catches, and which ones survive.
WireGuard is fast and simple. VLESS Reality is invisible to censors. Both are good protocols for different situations. Here's when to use which.
XRay is the proxy platform that powers VLESS, Reality, and most modern censorship circumvention tools. It's not a protocol. It's the engine that runs them.
VLESS Reality performs a real TLS handshake with sites like microsoft.com, forwarding their actual certificate. To any DPI system, your VPN traffic is indistinguishable from normal HTTPS browsing.
VLESS is a lightweight proxy protocol from the XRay ecosystem that delegates encryption to TLS, eliminating double-encryption overhead. Here's how it works and why it matters for VPN users in censored countries.
WireGuard is fast, but it's trivially detectable by DPI. VLESS with Reality makes your VPN traffic indistinguishable from visiting microsoft.com. Here's how it works and why it matters.
