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So are Signal's serverside components.
WhatsApp is e2e encrypted. It uses the same tech as Signal.
Ah ok. Well, as I said I lived there for years and i'm telling you they can and do block VPN traffic (not all, another commenter mentioned Astrill) quite well. To say zero success is incorrect.
Location (and peering) might be a factor, so if you/your friends lived somewhere different to I your experience may differ.
I spent years living in China. Do you really mean zero success?
OpenVPN stopped working in 2017. Deep packet inspection prevents the initial handshake. I hosted my own SS for a number of years before switching to wireguard, with more success.. however, they IP ban a majority of VPS IP ranges, so the providers Linode/DigitalOcean were messed up.
And everyone experiences VPN slow down during CPC conferences.
It can only be worse now.
Used it as my primary hiking tool recently (i know, I know - I had a compass and a map) and it worked a treat.
I haven't. Screenshots look nice but it appears to be only on G Play and i prefer FOSS.
Jerboa is close enough to RIF for me that it's borderline perfect as is.
AOL even made its way to the UK. Free CDs all over the place, even accompanying paid coputing mags.
I'm glad it went away.
Vice City made me appreciate 80s music at a young age. I really appreciate the thought that went into selecting abd producing the sound track. I have the full OST release on CD - not sure if it is a bootleg or not, I don't really care.
Not a problem in western Europe.
They must've been pretty tanned after chilling like that for 6 years.