Such a maneuver has become commonplace for the most advanced Russian Internet users.. When you try to access certain sites, for example, the site of the "
And then, in a few clicks, you connect to a VPN service abroad, and the blocks disappear... " In recent days, when connecting to the servers of NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Hola and other popular services that should bypass blocking, you will receive only blank pages, "
" but don't get it done. Today everyone has no time for jokes. During this time, technological progress and a political shift took place in parallel, "
" Since then, the Russian authorities have equipped access providers with so-called CPU modules, which allow them to check data passing through networks using DPI (DeepPacketInspection) technology, block and slow them down at will, "
" In the case of videos, applications and GoogleDocs from Alexei Navalny's teams, the decision to remove this content or make it inaccessible in Russia was made by Google itself, just like the blocking of their bot in Telegram was carried out by the messaging system administrators. The sight of Russian platforms such as Yandex or the social network VKontakte obeying the orders of the authorities is no longer new, but the true novelty lies in the fact that from now on, large foreign companies become targets and they submit, "
" " The Russian government, which was once reluctant to lash out at global web giants, is no longer afraid to threaten them with blocking or even, in Google's case, threaten to prosecute their Russian employees to force them to submit.. Recently, after the removal of RT Germany channels, YouTube was targeted by Roskomnadzor. The Federal Service demands their restoration, threatening that otherwise, the video hosting will be completely blocked in Russia. A few months ago, such a test of force was unimaginable, "