[_l219]

The UK on its way towards becoming like China. I thought I would never have to use VPNs again after leaving but oh well.

Notes from my 5 years in China: - Use a protocol like trojan-gfw over cloudflare. It 1: hides the fact that you’re using a VPN and looks like normal https traffic, 2: Is open source and the Trojan-go/v2ray repositories are well tested in nightmarish environments like China. 3: Cloudfare obscures the IP address of your server from the government. - You can have your server use something like Mullvad so that your traffic blends into the crowd (of customers) - Always have an emergency protocol that is unlikely to get blocked. I wrote my own custom implementation of HTTPS over DNS for when they decide to cut off general internet access to sites outside the country. (Happens every month or so for a few days) - For messaging, use a fully open source & end to end encrypted & federated protocol that you can self host. Matrix.org is blocked in China but self hosting still allows you to contact people on the main server.

[immibis]

For the time being, you don't have to hide the fact that you're using a VPN in the UK.

[Defletter]

Still, it may be worth getting familiar with the software so one isn't frantically learning it all if and when we do have to start hiding it.

[_l219]

My concern is that they are logging traffic and will retroactively enforce new laws. This is concerning for someone born in an Islamic country and having lived in China (both somewhat enemies of the UK occasionally - I don’t actually know if there is/will be discrimination). Better safe than sorry.

[varispeed]

Until government orders ISPs to to send details of all customers who connected to known VPN services and then issue everyone a fine as a warning or worse.

The thing is, currently nothing works in the UK, so if you think you'll be able to dispute anything...