And again about blocking Telegram. Deploy your own VPN

The fact that the Telegram messenger is blocked on the territory of Russia, now does not speak and does not write just lazy. According to Pavel Durov, the total number of messenger users in the Russian Federation is about 15 million, which is a rather big number. If Telegram is made unavailable, then all these people (that is, you and I) will be unhappy. Actually, they are already unhappy.



But the problem can be solved. For example, it is possible to use a browser plugin with built-in VPN. Well, if you want something more interesting, you can try to raise your own VPN-server.

Do it fast

One way was presented last year . To do this, you need a set of Algo VPN scripts that allows you to set up your own VPN server in a few minutes on any of the cloud services. One of the famous - DigitalOcean.

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In order to start working on creating your own server, you need to register with the same Digital Ocean (or some other service) and start running the setup server. Registration and configuration of the server itself are performed sequentially, in several steps:

1. We create an account on the hosting provider DigitalOcean. The script in question also supports Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure.
2. We load scripts on the local PC.
3. Install dependencies with the command line. To do this, open the trunk and start working with the pythoon interpreter, which is used to deploy Algo.

By the way, the interpreter should be the second version. To get started, you must perform the following steps:



For macOS:

$ python -m ensurepip --user $ python -m pip install --user --upgrade virtualenv 

For Linux (deb-based):

 $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install \ build-essential \ libssl-dev \ libffi-dev \ python-dev \ python-pip \ python-setuptools \ 

4. Install Algo dependencies for your own OS. Here we simply execute the following command:

 $ python -m virtualenv env && source env/bin/activate && python -m pip install -r requirements.txt 

5. Specify the users we want to create, for which you need to open config.cfg and specify users in the list of users.



6. Launch ./Algo in the Algo directory and follow the instructions. There are several additional functions here that you can read about in the ROLES.md file on Github.



If you need more detailed instructions, you can find it here at this address .



If you don’t want to bother with all this, there is an even simpler way, consisting of three stages:

• Register on DigitalOcean;
• Follow this link and log in with DigitalOcean;
• Enjoying the work of the script that collects the droplet from the VPN, and after installation provides the necessary settings.

Generally speaking, Roskomnadzor is blocking everything and everyone, so it’s hard to understand what will work out of the VPN in the near future and what’s not. But without a lock bypass, you can hardly live in peace, if the messenger that everyone is used to using suddenly stops working.



Among other methods, you can also use browser extensions. On the work of one of them - Ninja , recently told in Habrahabr. This extension has everything you need to overcome the blocking, including the ability to work using the SOCK S5 protocol.



Telegram has been added to the expansion functionality recently, but everything is working, tested. The developers promise to improve and improve the "ninja". If you have any suggestions, criticisms, wishes, then you can contact the developers in the iNinja channel in the same Telegram (do you, by the way, do you continue to work?).

We are all human, and the heads of Roskomnadzor are also

Despite the fact that Telecom Roskomnadzor forces everyone to block Telegram, its representatives easily use the blocked and banned messenger. Example - I.O. Vladislav Alekseevich Minakov, head of the monitoring department of the RKN (at the time of writing the material was in Telegram about two hours ago) .







The official does not just bypass the blocking, but sets up a proxy server, which is strictly forbidden to ordinary mortals. Moreover, Roskomnadzor promised a religious procession with regard to proxy servers and VPN. But senior government officials believe that all is well.







Anyway, in the same China Telegram has been blocked for a long time. But the Chinese bypass the restrictions without any problems. Moreover, without any VPN the messenger continues to work, although only in text mode - the pictures are not loaded. Previously, all this was perceived as savagery, and now it is a given, the realities of today. It is a pity that all this has to be seen and worked with.