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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by dwood_dev on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:07AM (#45064335)
ChatGPT happily helped me run through all kinds of tools and configs. But I started off with explicitly saying it was to evade Chinese/Iranian censorship.
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by BrandoElFollito on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:24PM (#45068972)
Out of curiosity, I just tried a similar question but for the "French censorship on Internet". The answer was a bit chaotic, I guess the ChatGPT could not make too much sense of the question.
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by sebastiennight on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:10PM (#45069418)
Can you try the exact same prompt (word-for-word identical) with other countries? Eg. US, Canada, Russia, Italy?

I'd be curious to know if there was a difference.

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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by dwood_dev on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:52PM (#45070991)
Fascinating result. It's non-deterministic!

I went to create a clean chat, did temporary mode, and it rejected me! I tried again in another temporary chat and it worked.

Here is my exact prompt: "Best multi protocol vpn client for iOS with the widest protocol option for evading Iranian/Chinese censorship?"

I tried US, UK, France. All went through, but they did caution that evasion may be illegal.

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