The original post: /r/vpn by /u/bszinga on 2024-11-29 10:53:08.

Is it possible to have a VPN that’s not detectable by restrictive Government?

I have friends in a 3rd World country with extremely limited internet access. All social media and even email is blocked making communication virtually impossible. It used to be possible to bypass this with VPN but now that has stopped working too.

I would like to help my friends out if possible. I setup an openVPN but they can’t connect (I tried and it works with friends in other countries) so it seems they also block the VPN protocols not just the IP addresses.

Is they’re a hidden way of doing this? I read about the possibility of using SSH Tunnels with a proxy server but not quite sure how to set it up and if it would work as expected.

My friends use their mobile phones to connect to the internet and I could host a cloud server or on my home PC to give them internet access.

I’m tech savvy enough to follow tutorials but don’t truly understand everything in depth which is why I would very much appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.