I thought obfuscated servers meant that proxy/vpn will not be detected? I’ve tried Lightway UDP/TCP both.
But proxy/vpn detection websites are telling me that I’m using a VPN.
I think what’s obfuscated are the details of the servers used as your endpoint to limit tracking, not obfuscation of the fact you’re on a vpn
It’s always a game of cat and mouse.
Services can usually detect when you’re using a VPN by using deep packet inspection to look at the metadata that accompanies the network packets from the VPN endpoint to their server.
Obfuscated servers work by hiding this metadata.
Of course, the next thing that happened is services looking to block VPN traffic started using deep packet inspection to block any traffic with obfuscated metadata, on the assumption it’d be coming from a VPN.
No doubt VPN providers will come up with another clever way of circumventing deep packet inspection, and in turn DPI will evolve to detect that method. And round and round the wheel goes.
There’s no perfect and permanent solution, unfortunately. It’s always going to be, as I said, a game of cat and mouse.
Those websites can only detect your IP address, which can be associated with express VPN if they don’t change to new servers fast enough. Obfuscated servers means that the protocol used is obfuscated, and an ISP just looking at the packet structure shouldn’t be able to figure out that it’s VPN traffic. This means that you are probably using obfuscated protocols to connect to a server already marked as owned by express.
Will be harder to detect, but detection is still possible.