yeah, i even ended up using firefox foxyproxy addon because then i could either go all in on the proxy or whitelist style only few websites or blacklist with all websites and few open. that addon probably was the best thing in all of it because i was not pushing the entire OS through the tunnel.

yeah, i guess for some time, cisco was called out by news outlets for helping the government impose the firewall which the company later denied but the damage was done by then so it didnt really matter, still, i think this just slipped from their minds, a random port, somethimes 80, 8080, 3400. it was fun (well considering the circumstances) with the added risk of incarceration if caught and many were unfortunately so yeah