Why a VPN Can Work Today and Fail Tomorrow
A tunnel that worked yesterday can stop working with no change on your side. The documented record shows four distinct causes, and only one of them is the censor.
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Research
Original investigation or analysis, with methodology, limitations and sources.
3 articles of type research
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How Often Do Countries Shut Down the Internet?
What an internet shutdown is, who orders one, and what the record shows: 313 documented shutdowns across 52 countries in 2025, the highest since tracking began in 2016.
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Who Controls the Infrastructure?
Every VPN server is rented hardware in a building someone else owns. Follows the chain from your device to the disk, and what real seizure cases revealed.