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WireGuard, OpenVPN, and basic Shadowsocks are all detected by the GFW in 2026. The protocols that survive are VLESS Reality with Vision and NaiveProxy.
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.
