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Here are tools and services that help bypass censorship and maintain online privacy.

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

Research Tools and Sites

IODA (For monitoring internet outages)

CitizenLab

OONI Explorer

Censored Planet

Access Now

Advocacy Assembly (Has courses on censorship circumvention)

Freedom House

Greatfire.org

DFRLab

Cloudflare Radar

Shodan

ACLED Armed COnflict and Event Data

BGPStream

Articles

The Authoritarian Playbook

The Resistance Playbook

Freedom in the World 2025

Freedom on the Net

Github Repositores and Projects

danoctavian/awesome-anticensorship (A large repository of anticensorship tools)

marzenshin/awesome-anticensor (Another tool repository)

cbeuw/Cloak (A pluggable transport proxy)

xvzc/Spoof/DPI (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 (Tools specifically for bypassing Russian censorship)