I am in Indonesia where Reddit, Vimeo, The Pirate Bay and other sites are blocked. I just enabled TRR in Firefox 60 (They mention best support is in 62) and now I have full unblocked access to all those sites. Awesome.
Using an alternative DNS resolver like 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) could solve that already, and not only in Firefox.
Or Quad9, but this could be intercepted.
apt-get install unbound
It depends how the block is implemented. If it's done by intercepting DNS requests, it doesn't matter what server you _try_ to reach. There's also the Virgin (UK) approach of allowing the correct DNS response, but tampering with HTTP requests (though switching to DNS-over-HTTPS wouldn't help in that case).
That will not work. Some ISP do DNS transparent proxy (forward all udp packet 53 to their own DNS server). You need DNSCrypt or VPN.
They generally inspect DNS packets and block hostnames from resolving correctly. Does not matter the destination.
I was already using 1.1.1.1, did not unblock. Would be very curious if the ISPs were actually proxying my DNS requests. Any tips on how I might test that on Ubuntu?
Thanks for the heads up, ill keep that in mind if i start seeing issues. So far so good.
Ok that is news to me, why Indonesia blocks it?
porn, hate speech, and pirate related stuff is blocked by government
Well, shame on you. All the armchair experts at hacker news say that the implementation is really bad and you should feel really bad for using it. So please stop using it and make them happy.
Reddit, Vimeo? What is their justification for blocking those?