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Re:Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to b... by dtech on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:33AM (#15763724)
It's hard but possible. China manages to detect VPN's with their great firewall and cut a VPN connection to outside countries fairly fast.

You basically need to look at traffic patterns. A TLS handshake (HTTPS) is very distinct from a typical VPN handshake (except maybe OpenVPN since it uses TLS)

Or they can just block/throttle IP's of VPN providers. Not a lot of people can set up their own VPN server.

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Re:Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to b... by icebraining on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:41AM (#15763773)
Even OpenVPN seems to be detectable, there's a provider that suggests running it over an extra TLS tunnel[1]. The overhead must be terrible, though.

[1] https://airvpn.org/ssl/

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