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liveinthisworld
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Have they heard of VPNs or no?

gwen
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i mean, the country im in right now (uae) has blocked a TON of vpn websites such as mullvad, had to download lantern (open-source vpn so might actually be good?) to access it :|

liveinthisworld
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Just install wireguard on your OS and get the files from the Mullvad site. Also, pay in XMR

liveinthisworld
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Does the UAE have something similar to China?

Unless they’re doing some serious DPI (no idea how they would do that on Wireguard traffic other than plain metadata mining), the only ways they can stop traffic is by stopping anything to certain IP spaces, or certain types of traffic through certain ports, or a combination of both. If they have truly blocked the Mullvad IP space, then no this will not work, but OP mentioned using a different app to access them, which lets me assume that it was a problem with the client.

gwen
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uae has blocked the mullvad website as well as torproject (also a ton of piracy streaming sites etc), i used lantern to access them before i got protonvpn

liveinthisworld
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It’s not about the website. Unless they have blocked access to the endpoint that Mullvad operates, you should still be able to connect to it.

Use TOR bridges.

Use OpenVPN with Mullvad/IVPN if you can, OpenVPN can be disguised as HTTPS traffic. I wouldn’t rely on a free VPN because of the data mining, and it’s only a matter of time before Proton gets banned too

gwen
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no idea, any vpn works really