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by PinkRidingHood 974 days ago
This is made for people in China under censorship I think. I've used it personally in China and it's a welcome alternative to shadowsocks (it even uses a similar flow of a local socks5 server) if you have an unblocked server you have access to (China fingerprints normal socks5 traffic).

It's slightly better in terms of robustness (since its less used) but eventually the firewall realizes you're only connecting to one server so it blocks outgoing large amounts of traffic to any IP. I've found using shadowsocks on one IP, using hysteria on another, and using proxy.pac to intersperse the two works best.

I'm surprised at all the negative comments here, its clear that the context of the project was not understood.

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Could this work as a pluggable transport for Tor in China?

An advantage is you wouldn't be connecting to a single proxy, but a (small, configurable) number of bridges