Shadowsocks
Lightweight SOCKS5 proxy protocol designed for censorship bypass. Pioneered censorship evasion techniques but increasingly detected by modern DPI. V2Ray evolved from Shadowsocks with better obfuscation.
What is Shadowsocks?
What is Shadowsocks?
Lightweight SOCKS5 proxy protocol designed for censorship bypass. Pioneered censorship evasion techniques but increasingly detected by modern DPI. V2Ray evolved from Shadowsocks with better obfuscation.
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SOCKS5
Internet protocol that routes traffic through proxy servers. More versatile than HTTP proxies, handling any traffic type. Shadowsocks uses SOCKS5 protocol for censorship bypass.
V2Ray
Advanced proxy framework designed to bypass sophisticated censorship. Disguises traffic as normal HTTPS to defeat deep packet inspection. Most effective protocol for accessing blocked content in China, Iran, and UAE.
Censorship
Government or organizational restriction of internet content and access. Countries like China use sophisticated systems to block websites and VPNs. V2Ray and obfuscated protocols bypass censorship.
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