While VPNs is originally used for business purposes and later on to do almost everything, The Internet Censorship Circumvention tools like Ultrasurf, FreeGate, and Psiphon and countless others had major rules on unblocking websites in countries like China, Russia, Iran, MENA and others.
Good ol’ ultrasurf on a flash drive allowed us to play games in the back of our school library
VPNs get more attention because they’re versatile – not just for bypassing censorship but also for privacy, security, and accessing region-restricted content. Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools are crucial for specific scenarios, especially in countries with strict controls. Both play significant roles, but VPNs get more credit due to their broader applications beyond circumvention.
Yeah, they sell more than the impact of these tools has done for these people considering that ICC tools are considered a necessity.
watch geo-blocked content
Hmm, how do I do that if I wanna load up US Netflix library?
Yeah, I remember it very well, portability is an important feature for these tools to work.
Netflix doesn’t work with VPNs anymore, and I tried smartdns as well. They’ve made their servers really strong
Or with tunnels. Netflix supports IPv6 and I have an IPv6 tunnel through Hurricane Electric (for the past 10 years at least). HE’s address space is blocked. Had to jump thru a bunch of hoops with my DNS to filter IPv6 records for Netflix and its associated domains to make it jump over to IPv4