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Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is 'simply impossible'
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You can use SOCKS instead of a VPN. SOCKS proxies allow arbitrary socket connections. You can use them for anything. The biggest difference is a VPN routes all(most) your traffic, whereas SOCKS are typically only used for specific(explicit) connections. Both other strong end-to-end encryption, obfuscating what you're doing.
The good thing is the abundance of residential and mobile SOCKS proxies. So you look like a regular person on the Internet and you're not using commercial IP ranges.
Residential proxies are controversial, as the majority of them are made available via adware inserted into mobile apps, running without the device owner's knowledge about it:
https://www.first.org/blog/20260424-Infrastructure-Nobody-Owns