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WireGuard, OpenVPN, and basic Shadowsocks are all detected by the GFW in 2026. The protocols that survive are VLESS Reality with Vision and NaiveProxy.
OpenVPN and WireGuard are easy to fingerprint. How the protocols that matter compare against state-level DPI in 2026, what research shows, and what nobody has measured.
Shadowsocks made censorship circumvention mainstream. But China learned to detect encrypted random noise. VLESS Reality takes a different approach: look like normal HTTPS, not like nothing.
