I call them up to just hang out, just like I did 20+ years ago. Virtually unchanged. Having a reason always adds the pressure of needing to be prepared for whatever. Sometimes I'm not in the mood to do jack shit, but still want company. Luckily my friends all aged very gracefully, so we all have plenty of time next to work and family commitments in our 40s.
They don't blacklist IP addresses generally, though some are certainly blocked. But normally they run deep packet inspections and block traffic that is identified as VPN traffic based on certain header data. That's what makes the firewall "great" in the first place; many other countries simply block a range of IP addresses, and all it takes is for the VPN provider to switch the IP in their data warehouse. That's trivial and takes seconds, and many providers rotate their IPs on a regular basis to prevent blocks in the first place.
Because of the deep packet inspection, OpenVPN and wireguard as protocols are entirely useless in China whatsoever, for example. Stealth mode AFAIK is using a modified wireguard protocol that obfuscates certain headers and thereby avoids detection (for now).
And it takes forever. I'm using the TWP plugin for Firefox (which uses external resources, configurable to google, bing and yandex translate respectively), and it's near instantaneous. The local one from Mozilla often takes 30 seconds, and sometimes hangs until I refresh the page.
Without.
Ah ok, I've got the paid version. If you happen to be or know a student, they offer a 50% discount through studentbeans.com, only $2.50 a month.
Proton works in China if you set the protocol to "stealth" in the setting, maybe that works for Saudi as well?
As others mentioned, 20 bucks is probably a bit low, but if you have exactly in mind what you need and can write that up thoroughly in a way that can't be misunderstood, one of the folks from India or Pakistan on fiverr.com could probably do it for fairly cheap, assuming it's not a major rewrite but really just a quick enhancement.
True that. I'm assuming whoever did the survey knows what they are doing, but that's not necessarily true, admittedly.
The sample size for a population of 200 million (people in the US minus children and people over 70) with a confidence of 95% and error margin of 5% is below 400.
Surveying 800 people actually brings the error margin down to 3.5%, which is extremely good in terms of applied statistics.
Attention span >3 minutes would be something already.
FlatEx Support ist 1A.
Why is that impressive? On older Android version it was force installed at some point, and since android 6 or 7 it comes bundled with the OS and can't be disabled.