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> a private, encrypted browser with built-in 256bit encryption and OpenVPN

Can it be used to bypass censorship with the built-in tools? (VPN is not enough for bypassing censorship in China though.)

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Yup, there are methods to fight this problem already. Our goal is to build a browser which faithfully produces the web while respecting users privacy

vpn is enough to bypass censorship in china. How do you think international corporations do it?

I've read (in Hacker News comments from developers in China) that international corporations get specially-licensed dedicated connections in China that don't go through the Great Firewall at all. So any VPN use on a connection like that would be for security, not to defeat the censors.

There are ISPs allowed by Gov to provide uncensored internet access, those are unblocked.

Otherwise personal use of VPN can be blocked by the gov. See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357590

See also the top comment of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469

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