What are alternative methods for accessing blocked websites?

[OCR]

The OP says that Wikipedia is censored/banned in Turkey.

Is it even technically possible?

2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey ...

 

[WWGD]

2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey ...

No turkeys in Wikipedia? How do they celebrate Thanksgiving?

 

[stoomart]

But I know changing DNS can work very well with some sites but what is the reason that it does not work for wikipedia?

Thank you.

DNS requests are sent in cleartext and are likely being intercepted, or the Wikipedia IP ranges are being blocked. The main issue I see with using proxies/VPN/Tor to access restricted content is their use is very noticeable from the network administator's perspective, and I think it's best to stay off their radar if possible.

 

[Buffu]

DNS requests are sent in cleartext and are likely being intercepted. The main issue I see with using proxies/VPN/Tor to access restricted content is their use is very noticeable from the network administator's perspective, and I think it's best to stay off their radar if possible.

Tor also ?

 

[stoomart]

Tor also ?

Yes, Tor is really just an anonymizing VPN that prevents the target server from knowing where you connected from, but the traffic from your client to the entry node is trivial to identify as Tor traffic by its signature/fingerprint.

Like all current low-latency anonymity networks, Tor cannot and does not attempt to protect against monitoring of traffic at the boundaries of the Tor network (i.e., the traffic entering and exiting the network). While Tor does provide protection against traffic analysis, it cannot prevent traffic confirmation (also called end-to-end correlation).​

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknesses​

 

[DrZoidberg]

If you don't want to use tor or a vpn, you could still use googles web cache. i.e. go to google.com and type in "cache:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_block_of_Wikipedia_in_Turkey"
Since the connection between your browser and google is encrypted, there should be no way to tell that you used wikipedia. Even if your ISP logs all your activity, all they will see is that you connected to googles servers.

edit: I just noticed, typing in "cache:..." into google will redirect you to an unencrypted http site for some reason. Therefore it's better to type in the correct url directly https://webcache.googleusercontent....ia.org/wiki/2017_block_of_Wikipedia_in_Turkey

 

[berkeman]

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