How to help Russians Bypass Government Censorship & Access Facebook and Twitter


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DATE: March 5, 2022, 5:34 a.m.

UPDATED: April 28, 2022, 12:25 p.m.

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  1. How to help Russians Bypass Government Censorship & Access Facebook and Twitter
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  3. Please note, I'm going to be focusing on configuration instructions for Windows PCs. So, if you are on a Mac or Linux machine, you can still uses these services, but you'll have to figure out how to install it yourself.
  4. The first method the Russian government might to use is to block the site at the DNS (Domain name System). The is essentially the internet's phone book, and it translates the text domain names into IP addresses that can be accessed.
  5. Here are some DNS servers that might be useful;
  6. Cloudflare - 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1
  7. Google - 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4
  8. Quad9DNS - 9.9.9.9 & 149.112.112.112
  9. OpenDNSHelp - 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220
  10. Comodo - 8.26.56.26 & 8.20.247.20
  11. They can also installing a service called DNSCrypt along that uses end to end encryption and connects to servers all over the world.
  12. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Anonymized-DNS
  13. This can be a bit tricky to setup, so here is what I did. They have an installation guide on the right side of the screen, located here: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation
  14. I choose to try YogaDNS as I have never been able to get the standard DNSCrypt client to work properly. You can download YogaDNS from https://yogadns.com/. Install the software and then

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