WireGuard is blocked by DPI in 10+ countries now. AmneziaWG 2.0 is a fork that makes the traffic look like random noise - DPI can’t tell it apart from normal UDP. Same crypto under the hood, negligible speed overhead.
I wrote an installer that handles the whole setup in one command on a clean Ubuntu/Debian VPS - kernel module, firewall, hardening, client configs with QR codes. Pure bash, no dependencies, runs on any $3/month box. MIT license.
Been running it from Russia where stock WireGuard stopped working mid-2025.
As someone living in Russia, it indeed works to trick complex DPI systems. Unlike classic Wireguard, it works.
Awesome.
Living in Russia, im super curious about that. How is daily life? People support Putin?
Daily life…it depends. Overall, things as running as usual, except for some things that cause everyone’s anxiety.
First is, obviously, heavy Internet censorship. Living without a VPN is so unbearable even older generations call the younger one for help. Government is currently high on pushing the state-controlled messenger Max, but no one, even the older folks, wanna join. So, they do everything in their power, from forcing government services to use Max as a communications platform, to blocking all other options. People keep using Telegram regardless, and find ways not only around blacklist, but even whitelist blocking. Max is nearly universally despised. VK remains a not-much-better alternative for those who didn’t yet find their way around whitelists. Unease grows about plans to use state-controlled apps to monitor VPN connections on Android phones and block respective IPs. iPhones are better protected in this respect, but other plans are devised as well.
Second is war. The last 2-3 years of it were relatively chill for most Russians, but with drone strikes appearing as far as Saint Petersburg, the war knocks back home. The unease is amplified by Russia turning mobile connections to whitelist mode when drones appear. The appearance of circumvention methods (bridging through whitelisted resources into the wider Internet), on one hand, relieves the anxieties of losing last bits of access to the world, but on the other, shows governments inefficiency at maintaining the drone defense.
Third is more broad and globally known - the cost of living crisis, which hits here just as everywhere else. Housing is practically unattainable for most, and rent goes through the roof. Food gets more expensive, and scandals arise about managing the existing supply, such as Miratorg claimed to push government’s hand in exterminating private farms’ livestock under the guise of disease prevention.
Overall, plenty of room for anxiety and sense of instability.
The Putin support has long switched from “go go Putin” to “who, if not Putin?” and then to “if Putin loses, the country is going to collapse”. So, over time it became less of actual support and more of added anxiety about war’s resolution and what it means for Russia going forward. Putin is often seen as a beacon of some, fainting, stability. But even with all that, support does indeed fade.
Its interesting to read that because its exactly the same things being pushed in the west. There is some kind of agreement being played out in my opinion. Setting the stage for splitting up things between them.
In the mean time, ordinary people like you and me are just people, having much more incommon with eachother than those so called leaders.
Absolutely. I don’t have a leader, but I do have you and others by my side.
Fuck the war. Fuck the so-called “leaders”
100% to that my friend.
They are supporting their government since Russia is under attack, but the war is unpopular. The government response is considered too weak, many want harder strikes, including against the West.
Seems like the leaders are itching to start a large scale war. Positioning themselves to grab control over oil and other forms of energy.