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> that's "shadowsocks"

I'm not familiar with the software, but according to Wikipedia it's a client to connect to a SOCKS5 proxy:

> Shadowsocks is not a proxy on its own, but (typically) is the client software to help connect to a third-party SOCKS5 proxy, which is similar to a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel.

Are you saying that's incorrect?

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that's oversimplification. raw socks5 is a low-level thing without encryption.

shadowsocks puts a solid cryptolayer on top of it, designed specifically to be hard to detect. its Chinese origin gives a hint here: it is created to circumvent detection by "great firewall"

outline builds a user-friendly toolset on top of it

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