Questions about South Korean servers

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Hello, South Korean user here - Please excuse my poor English

On Tuesday our government started new kind of censorship called “SNI Filtering”. (Bleeping Computer’s article, and post on r/privacy)

Unfortunately It seems like Proton’s #KR1-4 servers are also affected this, I can’t connect to some NSFW websites from that day, even using HTTPS (Pornhub, DMM.co.jp, etc.)

I’m using protonvpn-cli on Linux Mint 19.1 and official Android client. When I trying to connect blocked websites, my Firefox shows “Secure Connection Failed” error or just redirects to warning.or.kr, even connected to VPN.

But I’m fine for now because I can connect to servers outside of my country like Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.

My questions are:

  1. Is it safe to use Korean servers?

  2. Is it possible to avoid this kind of censorship when using KR servers?

Thanks for reading my post

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If you use a server within a government of censorship, the VPN server will still be affected. If you want to avoid censorship, you should connect to a country that does not censor any content.

3

On a side note:

Russian developer’s open source utility called “GoodbyeDPI” is becoming popular here, and someone translated into Korean for fork project

4

We unfortunately cannot control the network policies of South Korea, so they are forcing our upstream network provider to do filtering even though we do not (and will never) filter ourselves. The solution to this is to connect to a VPN server outside of Korea in a jurisdiction that has better Internet policies.

5

Do you have a plan to remove servers from Korea in the future? (sorry for mentioning your competitor)