In Russia, Telegram was banned: how to bypass blocking

Roskomnadzor after several warnings made the final decision to block the popular Telegram messenger in the territory of the Russian Federation (RF).

The Federal Security Service (FSB of the Russian Federation) repeatedly demanded that the company's founder, Pavel Durov, provide keys for decrypting messages to Telegram. However, the authorities of the Russian Federation were constantly refused. Today Roskomnadzor banned the residents of the Russian Federation from using this messenger. You can bypass the blocking in several ways, Snob said.

Using proxy servers:

In 2017, Telegram in 2017 added to the messenger the ability to bypass the blocking by using proxy servers running SOCKS5. This method is available in mobile versions of Telegram for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, as well as in the desktop application.

To do this, go to advanced settings Telegram (Advanced Settings):

go to the "Data and Disk" menu (Data and Storage);

click on "Use Proxy";

select the SOCKS5 connection type in the window that opens;

specify the settings of the foreign proxy server and port.

There are free and paid proxy services. The latter work more stable, support a higher speed and offer more countries through which you can connect. Free proxy services work for a short time, after which they are disconnected and you need to look for new ones.

You can find proxy services on the Hideip site. Developers Telegram advised users to choose the UK, Sweden, Germany and the United States. True, there is a risk that the further the country is selected from the RF, the slower the connection takes place. After selecting a proxy service, you must manually add it to the Telegram settings: digits to the colon in the Server line, digits after the colon in Port.

Virtual private networks (VPN, VirtualPrivateNetwork):

VPN allow you to visit any, even blocked sites, as if the user is not in the country that blocked certain Internet resources. To do this, you can use either a separate program or an extension for the browser. For example, the latest versions of the Opera browser have a built-in VPN, with which you can use the web version of the messenger

Among free VPN clients for computers, TunnelBear, FreeOpenVPN, CyberGhost, Hola are widely known. The cost of paid customers, such as HotSpot Shield, Mullvad, Zenmate, IPVanish VPN, NordVPN, starts from five dollars a month.

For mobile devices, you can select VPN services for Opera VPN, Onavo Protect, CyberGhost, VyprVPN. And also paid Nord VPN, Express VPN.

If the Telegram site is blocked:

Roskomnadzor can block the site Telegram.org. It has a web-based version of the application. Access to the site is easiest with the help of browser extensions that change the user's IP address, for example, ZenMate or FreeGate.

If Telegram is removed from the Russian App Store and Google Play

For the owners of Android-smartphones, everything is very simple - the messenger can be downloaded from the official website of Telegram, wrote the site MBH.

But with the App Store have to tinker - you need to go to a foreign application store Apple. To do this, you need to acquire, for example, an American account. Which you can create directly on the Apple website.

Just specify the US data, any address, but a real and working e-mail, which will receive confirmation of the creation of a new "accounting". After that, you need to open the App Store on your iPhone. In the upper right corner, select the account you just registered, download Telegram and change the "account" to your usual account.

According to the research company App Annie, on April 12, Telegram ranked second among the most popular iOS-applications in Russia. On Google Play, this program was in 12th place. At the end of March 2018, the monthly active audience of Telegram was 200 million users.