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  • anyhow2503@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    It’s not feasible to prevent it completely, but you can certainly make it harder for the average person and discourage usage by simply outlawing it. That’s what China is doing at least.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      China is not successful in it, since you can still use a VPN in China. You can even self host

      • anyhow2503@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Somehow I knew when I wrote that comment that someone would interpret “it’s possible to discourage VPN usage and make it harder for the layman” as “it’s possible to prevent VPN usage completely and China is 100% successful at doing that”. China hasn’t gone all in on blocking VPN traffic either way, since corporations can still use them and tourists don’t like having their internet connection dropped without warning (which they actually did at one point), but someday they might and it will probably be enough to prevent the majority from using VPNs to circumvent government censorship.

        • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          It’s technically impossible without blocking cloudflare and breaking most of the internet. You can route your VPN through cloudflare, so there’s that