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on a desktop we'd just setup an ssh tunnel to an ec2 instance and use SwitchyOmega in Chrome.

How did that work out performance wise? I was on an adsl connection in Beijing. Inside the country it was really great, could max out the 100mbit. Foreign websites were a pain. I found that ingress traffic constantly had a packet loss of 30%, which made TCP really unhappy, including ssh tunnels. Ended up writing my own tunnel software that was tuned to cope with the network situation.

I found the most success with https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master . It was a while back though.

With ssh, restarting the connection would help for whatever reason. So I had a little script rotating a set of connection behind haproxy.

EDIT: oh and Hong Kong. HK VPSes seemed to work the best.

Does anyone know the story behind:

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks

"Removed according to regulations." vs:

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master

Is it the shadowsocks project dancing around github censorship, or github allowing ss to dance around chinese censorship?

TLDR: Police asked the developer to stop working on it. (and judging by their Twitter activity, no crazy stuff happened)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150822042959/https://github.co...

Right, but the code is still there, still being developed, just on the master branch? That doesn't really square with "stopped working on it" - unless it's just a sham to dodge the police - but that sounds pretty dangerous? (As opposed to, say have someone else host it, host it in a new place etc).

What's about connections outside the browser (and SSH)?

BTW, I have noticed a trend to block port 22 in international hotels. It's annoying!

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