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Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship
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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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iOS supports VPN out of the gate. Apps just make it easier to configure. Please don’t spew divisive misinformation, regardless if this is ignorant to the facts or otherwise.
Where did you read that I said iOS doesn't support adding VPNs?
My message is clearly talking about side loading. Don't twist my words.
I do wish it were possible to make iOS more free. With that said, is it a fair comparison to draw when someone only knows how to use a VPN if it's in the App Store, whether Apple’s or Google Play?
So novices on either platform are harmed by lessened app availability even while both could be instructed to set a VPN up in settings or sideload an app.
Now if it’s a TOR browser or something, that’s a big L for Apple.
This whole thread is absurd, sideloading is possible on iOS, end of story. As per the original OP, their comment is 100% about sideloading
https://alexandrite.app/lemmy.world/comment/12667198
Imagine thinking that's the same thing as Android's side loading support. The cope is real.
Their comment got deleted, what did they say?
and iOS supports sideloading, don't twist reality. The elitism is dripping from every word of your comment. It'd be alright if your comments were based in reality but they aren't :/
Bro I hope Apple is paying you for all the white knighting you're doing for them. To side load on Apple, you have to create a developer account and treat it as if you're developing an app. That is borderline exploiting it and definitely not intended to be used for regular consumer applications. For all intents and purposes, you can't side load on Apple because this is not intended nor recommended for anyone, and is easily blocked by Apple if they ever choose to do so.
You're being blatantly bad faith to compare that to Android where you can simply download an apk, open it, and press install. It's entirely supported and intended by Android's design. Android goes so far to support seamless updates for third party app stores, and extends their app malware scanner to side loaded apks as well.
If you consider those two to be the same, then you're just in bad faith and not worth taking seriously, and are looking to argue for the sake of arguing. Apple is not your friend. They do not want you side loading, and you know this.
Normal VPNs don't work in Russia, you need one that's masked as usual traffic now.
You can get a free VPS from AWS or Oracle Cloud and set up Wireguard on it
It's blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client
Do they really block all connections to popular cloud providers? That also blocks a bunch of "innocent" websites and services, doesn't it?
They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website
VPN over an HTTP proxy then?
Or WireGuard TCP over UDP obfuscation?
I don't know if those work, and whether they continue to work against a state adversary. When you find a new workaround, there are ways to detect it
Reality is actually fairly hard to block because the VPN sends a hello to the camouflage website. It uses the connection to the camouflage website to pretend it's sending data from it, when it's actually sending data from the real destination.
It's blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client
Why are we not allowed to use these "apps that make it easier to configure"?