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oleg_antonyan on Jan 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interi...

They tried to block it in Russia in 2018. And failed miserably. Blocking entire subnets, millions of IP addresses on AWS, DigitalOcean and other providers, but Telegram servers can hope between different instances, so it ended up as wack-a-moll where thousands of innocents sites were blocked including some government-related services, banks, payment processing, my little startup project hosted on DO, but not Telegram

vetinari on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

In 2018, domain fronting was a thing. Since then, it became more difficult, as the cloud providers prohibited it.

However, to compensate, there's now encrypted SNI, so the situation is returning back to the 2018 one.

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