Subj : will VPNs getting banned?
To   : All
From : Mindsurfer
Date : Mon Aug 04 2025 17:54:18

western governments are getting more and more totalitarian and with the excuse of fighting child p.. and terror1sm, they come up with more restrictions every day.
So it will be just a matter of time until they come for VPNs.

there are 2 things that will need some alternatives.
1. DNS
2. VPNs

for DNS i am already using a combination of TechnitiumDNS and dnscrypt proxy.
That give me anonymous DNS requests through several hops via dnscrypt proxy.
DNS can still be attacked by authorities by forcing public DNS servers not to serve certain DNS entries. Here could come handshake.org into play. They work on a decentralized DNS certificate authority and naming. So they would not replace DNS itself, but the root zone file. That could finally free DNS.

For the VPN issue.. I was involved in a project as tester and support called MASQ. Development of MASQ is ongoing for several years now.
check it out here: masqbrowser.com masq.box
MASQ is an encrypted mesh network routing protocol, that has not existed before. created from scratch (for at least 5years), that allows a mesh network of nodes to route your web browsing data. decentralized, self organizing, with 1-5 hops. you choose how many hops your data has to take. 3 is minimum for being clandestine, so no node in the route knows the whole route, just its neighbors. 1 might be enough if you just need a different IP in a certain country. 5 would be snowden level paranoia ;) There is a masq browser and a chrome addon yet.

What Tools are in your belt to keep your data and browsing habits private, especially with governments and 3 letter agencies overstepping constantly?
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