Resources

A page with links to tools used for censorship circumvention and research

Note: I have not personally tested all of these tools, so evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each one before using them.

Circumvention Tools

Tails (Live Linux Operating System)

ProtonVPN

The Tor Browser

Obfs4 (Pluggable transport)

fteproxy (Pluggable transport)

meek (Pluggable transport)

FreeBrowser (A censorship circumvention browser)

Brave Search

Startpage (Search Engine)

Protonmail

Tutamail

Signal Messaging

Threema Messaging

Proton Drive

Tresorit (Secure Storage)

Lantern

Psiphon

Quad9 (Alternate DNS) at IP Address 9.9.9.9

DNSWatch (Alternate DNS) at IP Address 84.200.69.80


OSINT and Research Tools

IODA (For monitoring internet outages)

CitizenLab

OONI Explorer

Censored Planet

Access Now

Advocacy Assembly (Has courses on censorship circumvention)

Freedom House

Ripestat (Internet data and resources)

DNSVis (DNS Analysis)

DNS at Risk

Greatfire.org

DFRLab

Github Repositories and Projects

danoctavian / awesome-anti-censorship A large repository of anti-censorship tools

marzneshin / awesome-anticensor Another repository of tools

cbeuw / Cloak A pluggable transport proxy

xvzc / SpoofDPI A tool to bypass DPI

SadeghHayeri / GreenTunnel Another DPI bypass tool

apernet / hysteria A censorship resistant proxy tool

Kkevsterrr / geneva An AI anti-censorship tool

censortracker / censortracker A browser extension for custom proxies

anticensority / runet-censorship-bypass A tools specifically for bypassing Russian censorship


Articles

The Authoritarian Playbook

The Resistance Playbook

Freedom in the World 2025

Freedom on the Net