Enhanced Privacy
Shadowsocks encrypts internet traffic, making it difficult for ISPs and other entities to monitor online activities.
Bypassing Censorship
Shadowsocks is effective at bypassing internet censorship, allowing users to access restricted content.
Open Source
Being an open-source project, Shadowsocks is transparent and can be audited by anyone for security vulnerabilities or backdoors.
Lightweight and Fast
The protocol is designed to be lightweight, ensuring faster connection speeds and minimal overhead.
Customizable
Shadowsocks supports various encryption methods, allowing users to choose the level of security they need.
Cross-Platform Support
Shadowsocks is available on multiple operating systems including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Is there a good comparison of "undetectable" VPN protocols? Wireguard[0], Shadowsocks[1], VLess[2], VMess[3], Trojan[4], etc. All of them seemed to work for me during my recent trip to China. [0] The article says Wireguard is easy to block, but in my experience GFW lets it through. [1] https://shadowsocks.org [2] https://xtls.github.io/en/development/protocols/vless.html [3]... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
Maybe with https://shadowsocks.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
I am also in China right now and sorry to say that ProtonVPN hasn't worked at all for me.I downloaded four different VPN apps before departing from Europe and only Mullvad had worked since they implement a Shadowsocks bridge on some connections. Source: almost 2 years ago
If the changing por trick work you can try shadowsocks or v2ray. Source: almost 2 years ago
Fellow sub member /u/zenzebeat reports that https://shadowsocks.org/ still works fine albeit slow. Source: over 2 years ago
Not necessarily, people can always use tor or this: https://shadowsocks.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago
OutlineVPN is not a VPN provider. Instead, it is a manager (for desktop) and client app that allow you to quickly deploy, manage and connect to Shadowsocks 1 2 proxy server. You get to choose which cloud company to use (with quick deploy options for AWS and Digital Ocean the last time I use it) and you would be the one who own, pay for, be in charge of the server you created. Source: about 3 years ago
The dude got blocked accessing the Shadowsocks website, not accessing an actual Shadowsocks setup. Of course they'll block https://shadowsocks.org/, lol. Source: about 3 years ago
Maybe try Wireguard and SSH tunnelling but both of these can be blocked by enterprise firewalls. I’d give something like Shadowsocks a bash and see. Source: almost 4 years ago
2) Even if you use other bonding mode that can spread the flows over several network interfaces, you'll get low throughput due to the aforementioned reordering and also due to the congestion control, more on that below. Bonding works well when you have several "equal" links, which is not the case with LTE, where the speed may be quite different across the links and also vary with time. Last but far from least,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago
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