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Comment by tootahe45 | Hacker News Reader

Just a reminder if you're being censored in any serious way then don't use TOR, as the network is largely controlled by a few actors and the devs don't seem to care / or don't have the proper resources to deal with it.

https://nusenu.medium.com/is-kax17-performing-de-anonymizati...

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What would one use when one is being censored in any serious way?

Symmetric encryption with physical key exchange.

How will that help a person reach a website that's blocked in their country?

Is there any alternative, though?

Outline (getoutline.org) is a super easy to use you run on a cloud server. No logging and it works everywhere there's censorship, and it's easy to share access to your server with as many or as few people as you like. The only cost is the cost of running the cloud server, a few dollars a month if you use LightSail or DigitalOcean. Disclaimer: I used to work on it.

I’m a fan of Outline and I ran my own DO droplet when the criticism around ProtonVPN and mail was happening, few minor pain points for me were the deprecated warnings that showed when booting the Linux client and it unfortunately presented me with the most connectivity issues. It would show connected but after doing IP lookups would reveal true IP. It’s seamless and easy to maintain but seemed unreliable at least on ZorinOS.

Are there any implications for using native tor (non-exit) services?

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