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[v3.181, v390] Psiphon – Free and open-source Internet Freedom VPN tool

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Sometimes when you are traveling, studying or working overseas, you will inevitably need to visit some blocked websites in that country. To access to your favorite news broadcast or social media platforms in some countries with censorship mechanism, in addition to using the traditional, old-fashioned VPN springboard circumvent the blocks, there are more and more Internet proxy tools available to enable users to quickly evade the Internet censorship. Psiphon is one of the best.

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[v21.32, v3.0.6] UltraSurf – One of the world’s most popular Internet circumvention tools

UltraSurf (AKA: 無界瀏覽) is one of the world’s most popular free anti-censorship and pro-privacy applications, developed by UltraReach Internet Corporation in 2002. It was originally created to help internet users in Mainland China (where the Internet is heavily censored and Internet users’ activities are monitored by the Great Firewall of China) bypass internet censorship and protect their online security & anonymity. After that, it became popular in many countries with Internet blockade due to its good usability, fast running speed and unlimited network traffic.

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[v7.99, v5.0, v1.3] BBWD – Access blocked, censored websites without hindrance

What is F.r.e.e.g.a.t.e? (Here, AppNee gave it a new name – Blue Back White Dove, short for BBWD). How to use? Where can you download it? Now, I will introduce this powerful proxy freeware to you all.

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[v9.21, v8.8] Hotspot Shield – Popular and trusted VPN tool

Hotspot Shield (short for HSS) is a powerful, acclaimed free VPN (Virtual Private Network) agents automatic searching tool. It’s mainly designed to effectively protect personal web surfing security and privacy; as well as breaking through the local network limits to access those blocked, censorship websites (like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or even Gmail) in some countries.

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Tails – Live Linux OS aimed at completely preserving Internet privacy and anonymity

According to the developers of Tails: NSA (National Security Agency) has taken a number of approaches to put pressure on many free software projects and their developers. And, during a LinuxCon technology conference, the founder of Linux, Linus Torvalds revealed that the NSA hoped to install a backdoor in his operating system. In other words, for even Linux distributions, they are not absolutely safe now.

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Shadowsocks – Very fast and secure cross-plarform SOCKS5 proxy

As is known to all, the serious network blockade and censorship in Mainland China (namely the GFW founded in 1998) has given rise to numerous excellent proxy software from China, including but not limited to: Freegate, UltraSurf, SoftEther VPNGoAgent, Shadowsocks, cow, Lantern, and more. Among them, Shadowsocks (AKA: 影梭) is a free, open-source, cross-platform, encrypted, and secure small proxy project from China. It uses the SOCKS5 proxy protocol (similar to SSH tunnel), and runs very, very fast. In China and many other countries, it’s widely used to break through the GFW-like Internet blockade and censorship and access the disturbed, blocked, or shielded web sites and web services around the world, such as Google, YouTube, FaceBook/Twitter, and more.

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