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So I'm probably not going to Egypt as Telegram is the main (in fact - the only) way communicate to members of my family remotely.
by qwerty456127 6y ago
So I'm probably not going to Egypt as Telegram is the main (in fact - the only) way communicate to members of my family remotely.
- dirtnugget 6y agoThere are plenty of ways to proxy the traffic. Apparently Telegram has it built in but for anything else I usually use ProtonVPN
- ku-man 6y agoYes, but such a display of resourcefulness will grant you a visit to the interrogation room of the local intelligence agency, in case you or one of your contacts is ever found with a working telegram app.
- dhoe 6y agoProtonVPN uses OpenVPN, right? That's been blocked in Egypt for some time. I had good success with Wireguard, which they didn't block (as of a year ago).
- dirtnugget 6y agoReally? Last time I was there around a year ago I was able to connect Proton. I believe the paid plan of ProtonVPN also offers TOR connections. Not a specialist on this, though.
- tinus_hn 6y agoThe traffic over your phones data connection is encrypted and routed directly through your provider in your own country. So these filters don’t affect it.
- mnd999 6y agoTypically the way to prevent people doing this is to make data roaming charges astronomically high.
- tinus_hn 6y agoData roaming charges are not set by governments. It’s not even necessary because typically the economies of countries that desire this kind of control are so bad getting a subscription abroad is not affordable for common people anyway.
- mnd999 6y agoThey’re not directly set by governments. But governments have a lot of influence over how mobile providers operate and, depending on government in question (e.g. China), if you want to keep your license you better do as you’re told.