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Bypassing proxies at work. Proxy servers, isa and bypassing closed ports. How to Pretend You're Working

One of the best ways to bypass restrictions is to use an ssh connection to create a universal proxy server directly on your computer. Today I want to develop this topic and answer the following questions:

1) Where can I even get this “ssh access”? It is very difficult?

2) You are already behind a proxy server, which does not allow you to establish direct connections with other computers. How to use the proposed trick?

3) What, the owners of the proxy server really won’t see what resources I’m connecting to? Is this really a proxy bypass?

If you are interested in this topic, read on.

Access via ssh?

If you don’t know what it is at all, I suggest you read the article at the link. Roughly speaking, this is one through which you can establish a connection with another computer. So where can I get a computer that can handle this kind of treatment? I will offer 4 options.

  • Think about where you could be and use a Linux-based computer (for example, some foreign institute). Do you have your username and password saved? Then, if they are not deleted, you will most likely be able to use the computer of this organization.
  • Do you have your own website? Then it is very possible that the hoster provides access via ssh. If there is no website, then you can buy hosting and a domain (or hosting with a real IP) specifically for this purpose. For example, the cheapest tariff according to the previous link will cost about 50 rubles per month. It is not necessary to create a website.
  • I already wrote about using a router for setup. So, if you follow this procedure and buy from a provider, then your home computer will become a good assistant
  • Create an account on one of these services. It may be unstable, but it's free.

ssh due to proxy

And it is possible. I will once again send you to read my article about . As it says there, download the putty program and configure it by going to the Connection - SSH - Tunnels tab, type: Dynamic, source port: 8080 (screenshots are in the article at the link). Now all that remains is to configure putty so that it does not connect directly, but uses the proxy server that is interfering with us. To do this, go to the Connection - SSH tab and specify the proxy server settings.

The correct settings can be found according to the instructions in my article about. If you enter everything without errors, putty should connect to the desired server and create a socks-proxy on your local computer with port 8080. I already wrote about its use in firefox in the article about.

Is it true that no one will know what resources I visit?

Yes and no. First, the hosts of the local proxy server will know that you have connected to your ssh computer. All. They will not know what resources you visit - all traffic will go through putty. But they will know about the presence of this traffic. If you are able to explain it or there is no strict control, then everything will be fine.

But there is another side. If you connect, say, through your home computer, then for everyone it will look like you connected from home. Whether this is good or bad is up to you to decide.

And one more very important point - you must not forget about permission. The fact is that the domain name you are interested in (for example, blocked by vkontakte.ru) must first be converted to an IP address. And with the default settings, it will be resolved not through the ssh tunnel, but directly. Anything will either be blocked or at least captured by the local proxy server. Therefore, we do the following: launch firefox, enter about:config in the address bar, click ok on the ominous warning that we can break everything. We are taken to a page where you can change additional firefox settings. In the filter line, enter proxy.

Most likely, the line network.proxy.socks_remote_dns will not be highlighted, and the value in it will be false. Double-click on it so that it becomes fat and the value changes to true. That's it, the setup is done. Now dns will also be resolved on that side of the tunnel.

Is there something unclear about proxy bypass? Ask questions. I hope this article will help you bypass proxy server restrictions.

How to bypass site blocking?

In this article, I will give you some tips on how to bypass the blocking of a site, visiting which is prohibited by the administration of the office where the computer is located, or by the authorities for political or other reasons. In general, I want to see it, but I can’t. Let's try to break the walls of prohibitions and obstacles on our way. However, I would like to emphasize that the tips below relate rather to the topic of safe surfing on the Internet and anonymity, rather than being an opportunity to bypass the prohibitions of an office or school administrator.

LET'S AGREE RIGHT AWAY... BYPASSING LEGAL BLOCKS IS A VERY SLIPPERY TOPIC. I WOULD NOT WANT TO BE THE AUTHOR OF A RESOURCE THAT THOSE I AM SETTING YOU AGAINST WILL CAST THEIR LOOK AT. THERE ARE A LOT OF READY-MADE WAYS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION OF YOUR INSTITUTION WILL NOT COPE WITH. THERE ARE ALMOST NOT IN THE ARTICLE. HOWEVER, YOU WILL BE GIVEN PLENTY OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

STRAIGHTAWAY…

  • The problem with the methods described here (as, indeed, with any) is that, no matter what settings on local machine were not exhibited barriers are installed on unattainable for you apparatus(switchers, routers) or a machine to which you simply do not have access.
  • Having successfully tried any method of bypassing the blocking, remember that when using proxy services in any form (directly from a proxy server or through a built-in browser plugin) you are risking information transmitted through these services. So pay attention to visiting sites using a secure protocol https and select a SEPARATE BROWSER that does not work with a proxy to work with sites where you enter passwords and logins (especially those related to payment).

Some of the tips may not work. Prohibition against prohibition is discord. The resource may also be blocked by supervisory authorities. To do this, the most effective method is listed last in the article - the Tor browser. Although when working with a browser, problems arise when working with resources that use a secure connection. And this is almost all social networks. Admins don't sleep either, so try everything.

How to bypass the administrator's ban? Use a proxy.

This is the easiest way that comes to mind. Getting to your personal page on a social network will not be difficult. Here are the addresses of free proxy servers from where you can try to get to a site prohibited by the administrator:

https://proxyweb.net/

https://www.proxy4free.com/(there are a whole bunch of proxy servers here)

Here is the domestic list: http://www.freeproxylists.net/ru/

Just copy and paste the addresses into the address bar. And then on the proxy page enter the social network address. You need to enter the real name of the site:

  • Classmates– https://ok.ru/
  • In contact with– https://vk.com/
  • Photo Country– https://fotostrana.ru/
  • My world from Mail.ru – https://my.mail.ru/

...these resources are unlikely to help you. This method also has another disadvantage. The fact is that using a proxy server involves in some way deceiving the site you are visiting. But many sites and blogs (and almost no one) do not need this. This means you may have problems viewing some pages.
How to bypass blocking using browser settings on an office computer?

Recently, a huge number of extensions have appeared for popular browsers that provide bypass for blocking by the office administrator. I think the best such plugins are:

They do not require installation on your computer; they will stick to your browser quickly and quietly. Worth a try.

How to use the Google search engine as a proxy server or how to bypass the administrator's ban and bypass site blocking.

Workers in the office are always bored and simply need to carve out a couple or three hours to communicate on social networks, which can no longer be counted. But the trouble is, evil administrators in their settings have imposed a ban on visiting popular sites. How to do this on your computer is described in this article. But you can’t just get to the computer administrator, and you can’t edit the list of prohibited addresses. And it's not necessary. There are many ways to bypass an administrator’s ban on visiting social networks or bypass a site block. In this article, I'll show you how to do it without using absolutely anything. Practice at home, it won't take much time. We will use the Google search engine as a proxy server, that is, bypass all restrictions. We do it step by step; at work you can simply skip some steps.

  • Record (purely for yourself) your real IP address. I think you already know how to do this. Maybe follow this link: whatismyipaddress . Do you remember? Close the page.
  • Now comes the fun part. We go to the online translation site Google Translate .
  • In the left field (of the language from which you will translate), select your native language (I chose, obviously, Russian). On the right is English.
  • Now type or copy our website link:

https://whatismyipaddress.com

and paste it into the same field. It should look like this:

  • Follow the link from the right window. I turned out to be a resident of India.

I chose the site to determine the IP address for clarity. You need to replace this address with the addresses of your favorite social networking sites and do not forget your registration data. If you do everything right, everything can work out. Then you clear your browsing history and that’s it. This trick will not protect you from anonymity on the network, but you can bypass the network administrator, or rather its settings. Everything, of course, depends on the sleight of hand of the system administrator.

How to bypass site blocking using a secure search engine StartPage Web Search

It is considered a good service in the field of ensuring anonymity. Moreover, you are free to customize the search engine in the same window to suit your needs. The button we need is on the right:

How to bypass website blocking using Google cache: a little cumbersome...

  • If you once discovered that your favorite site has been banned, you can try reading cached copies of the site by Google. To do this, use the operator site: when entering the site address. For example, if one day you discover that my blog is blocked by the administration, type in search engine line (not address) Google address of the Computer76 blog in this manner:

site:www.site

The search engine will return cached blog pages that it managed to index and save in the database. Yandex can also do this. If the link to the page is not active, click the Cache or Cached link at the end of the address bar. You can read.

  • Another option from old hacker Joni Long using a cache is to use cached information by adding some command to the address. But first, let's try to deceive everyone and everything. Take a look for yourself:

Find a website (let's take mine as an example). However, you do not need to enter his “official” address in the address bar. So look for it in the search bar:

Computer76

Google will return links that no one can block. However, do not rush to cross them. Look here - under the central link (the one in Russian) there is another one; it contains the cache - click on it:

What am I talking about... If you open both of these links in 2 tabs (which seem to lead to the same resource), look carefully at the address lines. But it’s not that simple:

and here’s what the same page looks like in the cache:

and so - in the google cache

Do you want anonymity? Let's contact Google directly, without paying attention to the servers of the hosts of these sites. Add

&strip=1

to the right edge of the cache address, and now you can carry out manipulations on someone else’s behalf. However, further surfing on internal links will most likely be impossible.
How to bypass site blocking? TOR

The most effective option that will help you bypass site blocking is to use a special browser (I advise you to immediately get a portable version - in case the administrator has forbidden you to install the program on your machine and you have to run it from a flash drive or from a desktop). Browser Tor– a guarantee that you will see any site, no matter where it is located, and no matter who it is blocked. . It's worth it, believe me, although there's no speed here. With him, all borders will be open to you. The only thing is that you will have to adjust it a little. Lovers Mozilla Firefox recognize your browser without difficulty: TOR uses this particular engine. The default browser settings may be known to the administrator. So let's attach a proxy server to TOR, redirect it through a certain port and try it. A list of proxy servers can be found anywhere. Some of them are banned at the level of your admin, some at the level of the site itself. And this is the very case when I urge you not to use the easy way: the addresses of such proxies can be entered manually by your admins, giving an error with the text blk_BL_redirector inside. Contact foreign proxies (cut off Chinese ones).

Let's be honest: for many of us, our work computer is a little island of home outside of the home. This is probably only fair, given that our home computer is often a branch of the office outside the office. So, between writing reports and thinking about spreadsheets with calculations, we use our work computers for our personal lives. We buy groceries for our birthday, watch funny clips on YouTube and chat with friends via ICQ or email.

And quite often, some things are easier to do with consumer technology than with the often clunky enterprise technology - compare Gmail to a corporate email account.

This raises one problem: our employers are unhappy with our behavior in the workplace. Partly because they want us to work in the workplace. And partly they are afraid that what we are doing jeopardizes the company's internal networks. So they ask the IT department to stop us dragging our personal lives from home to work.

So, is the fairy tale over? Well no, not so fast. To find out if it's possible to get around the IT department's restrictions, we turned to network experts for advice. Namely, we asked them to find the top 10 secrets that people from the IT department are hiding from us. For example, how to access a blocked site without leaving a trace, or how to chat in real time without downloading a prohibited program.

However, to keep things fair, we also reached out to security experts to find out what we're risking by doing these workarounds.

For tips on hacking, we turned to Gina Trapani, editor of the online guide to productive use of the network Lifehacker.com, Leon Ho, editor of the blog Lifehack.org, and Mark Frauenfelder, founder of the blog BoingBoing.net and editor of Make magazine, which provides technology advice. in a do-it-yourself format.

To assess the risks, we spoke to three experts who make their living helping IT departments write rules and track down bad actors who want to break them. They are John Pironti, chief information threat strategist at Amsterdam-based consulting firm Getronics, information security specialist at PricewaterhouseCoopers Mark Loubel, and threat specialist at security software company McAfee Craig Shmugar.

So here are 10 secrets your IT department is hiding from you, the dangers associated with them, and tips to protect yourself and avoid losing your job when you put them into practice.

1. How to send giant files

Problem: We all need to send large files from time to time, ranging from presentation slides to vacation photos. But if you're sending anything larger than a few megabytes, you risk receiving a message that says you're over your company's limit.

Companies may limit the amount of data their employees can send by mail for one simple reason: they want to avoid overloading their servers, which will slow them down. And approaching management with a request to increase your limit on sent files can be a very tedious process.

Workaround: Use online services like YouSendIt, SendThisFile or DropSend, which allow you to send large files - sometimes up to several gigabits - for free. To use their services, you usually need to register by providing personal information such as your name and email address. You can then enter the recipient's email address and a message for him or her, and the site will give you instructions on how to download the file. In most cases, a link is sent to the recipient's address, following which he can download the file.

Risk: Since these service sites send your files over the Internet, they are beyond the control of the company. This makes it easier for wily hackers to intercept these files in transit.

How to protect yourself: Some of these sites have a better reputation than others. For example, YouSendIt is a new company run by the former head of Adobe Systems and funded by well-known venture capital firms. Other such sites offer little information about themselves and are therefore more likely to create security holes that hackers can exploit to steal your information.

If the owners of a site are not obvious, there are other benchmarks by which to evaluate it. Look for security icons - in Internet Explorer this icon looks like a small padlock at the bottom of the screen - which indicate that the site uses an encryption system to protect the privacy of information from visitors.

2. How to use software that your company prohibits you from downloading

Problem: Many companies require employees to get permission from the IT department before downloading software. However, this can be problematic if you want to download a program that the IT guys have blacklisted.

Workaround: There are two easy ways to solve this problem: find an alternative to this program on the Internet or bring the program on external media.

The first method is easier. Let's say your company doesn't allow you to download the popular real-time chat program AOL Instant Messenger. You can still communicate with your friends and colleagues using an online version of the program called AIM Express (AIM.com/aimexpress.adp). Google also has a real-time communication service, Google Talk, available at Google.com/talk. Such programs as music players and video games also have their own Internet versions - usually they are somewhat stripped down compared to the original programs.

The second approach to solving the problem is more complex, but with its help you get access to that very program on your computer. All three of our experts named the company Rare Ideas LLC (RareIdeas.com), which offers free versions of popular programs such as Firefox and OpenOffice. You can download programs to portable devices, such as an iPod or flash drive, through the Portable Apps service (PortableApps.com). After that, you connect this device to your work computer and you're done. (Although, if your company prohibits the use of external devices, consider yourself out of luck.)

Risk: The use of online services may place undue strain on company resources. And programs on external media create a security risk. IT people prefer to keep control over the software used by employees so that if a virus or other problem occurs, they can easily fix it. If you bring programs with you, your control over them is reduced.

Another thing to keep in mind is that some less reliable programs, especially file-sharing programs, may contain spyware.

How to protect yourself: If you bring the program on external media, Lowbell says, at least change the settings of the antivirus program on your work computer so that it scans the device for potential threats. This is easy to do by going to the “settings” or “options” menu. Likewise, if you use file sharing services, configure them so that others cannot access your files, also through “settings” or “options”.

3. How to access sites blocked by your company

Problem: Companies often restrict their employees' access to certain sites, ranging from the truly obscene (porn sites) and the likely less-than-scrupulous (gambling sites) to the practically innocent (email sites).

Workaround: Even if your company does not allow you to access these sites, by typing their address in the top line, you can sometimes still get to them in a roundabout way. You go to a site called a “proxy” and type the Internet address you need in the search bar. Then the proxy site goes to the site you need and gives you its image - this way you can see it without going to it directly. For example, Proxy.org serves more than 4 thousand proxy sites.

Frauenfelder and Trapani suggest another way to achieve the same result: use Google Translate and ask it to translate the site name from English to English. Just enter the following text: "Google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.blockedsite.com", replacing "blockedsite.com" with the address of the site you need. Google essentially acts as a proxy server, finding the mirror site for you.

Risk: If you use a proxy site to view email or YouTube videos, the main danger is that you will be caught by your superiors. But there are also more serious security threats. Sometimes Internet bad guys buy website addresses that are just a letter or two away from popular sites and use them to infect visitors' computers with viruses, Lowbell warns. Often companies block these sites too - but if you use a proxy, you will be defenseless against them.

How to protect yourself: Don't make using proxy sites a habit. Use this method only to access certain sites that your company has closed access to in order to improve productivity - for example, YouTube. And be more careful with spelling.

4. How to cover your tracks on a corporate laptop

Problem: If you use a company-owned laptop to work from home, it's likely that you use it for personal purposes: organizing family vacations, buying books to read on the beach, compiling online photo albums, and so on. Many companies reserve the right to track everything you do on that computer because it is technically the property of the company. What will happen if... uh... your friend accidentally wanders onto a porn site or searches on the Internet for a cure for some shameful disease?

Workaround: The latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers allow you to cover your tracks. In IE7, select Tools, then Delete Browsing History. Here you can either erase your entire browsing history by selecting Delete All, or select multiple links that you want to erase. In Firefox, simply press Ctrl-Shift-Del or click on Clear Private Data in the Tools menu.

Risk: Even if you clear your history, surfing the Internet freely still puts you at risk. You could unintentionally pick up spyware on a shady site or create legal problems for your boss with your behavior. If you get caught, at best you could be in an awkward situation, and at worst, you could lose your job.

How to protect yourself: Clean up your personal data as often as possible. Better yet, don't use your work computer for anything you wouldn't want your boss to know about.

5. How to find work documents from home

Problem: You finish your work late at night or on the weekend - but the document you need is left on the office computer.

Workaround: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and IAC/InterActiveCorp offer software to quickly search for documents on your computer desktop. In addition, some of them allow you to search from one computer for documents saved on the desktop of another. How it works? The search engine company stores copies of your documents on its server. This way it can scan these copies when you search remotely.

To use Google's software - one of the most popular - you need to follow these steps. First, set up a Google account on both machines by visiting Google.com/accounts. (Be sure to use the same account on both computers.)

Then go to Desktop.Google.com and download desktop search software. Once it's installed, again on both machines, click on Desktop Preferences, then on Google Account Features. Check the box next to the phrase Search Across Computers. From this point on, all documents you open on both computers are copied to Google's servers, allowing them to be found on both computers.

Risk: Enterprise technology professionals imagine a catastrophic scenario: You've stored highly sensitive financial information on your work computer. We installed a program to access these files from our personal laptop. And then the laptop got lost. Ah ah ah.

In addition, experts have discovered vulnerabilities in Google's computer search software that could allow hackers to trick a user into giving them access to files, says McAfee's Shmugar. (Those problem areas have since been fixed, but there may be others, he says.)

How to protect yourself: If you have files on your work computer that should never be shared publicly, ask your IT system administrator to help you install Google Desktop in a way that won't leak.

6. How to store work files online

Problem: In addition to desktop searches, most people who often have to work from home have found their own solution. They save work files on portable devices or on the company network, from where they later retrieve them remotely. But portable devices can be bulky, and connections to your work network can be slow and unreliable.

Workaround: Use online storage services such as Box.net, Streamload or AOL's Xdrive. Most of them offer free storage of one to five gigabytes of information, and charge a few dollars per month for a package with additional storage. Another guerrilla method is to send yourself these files to your personal email, such as Gmail or Hotmail.

Risk: Bad guys could steal your password for one of these sites and steal copies of your company's sensitive materials.

How to protect yourself: When you are about to save a particular file on the Internet, ask yourself what will happen if it becomes widely available or falls into the hands of the head of a company that is your main competitor. If nothing bad happens, then continue.

Problem: Many companies have the ability to monitor employee emails both at their work address and at other email addresses, as well as ICQ communications.

Workaround: When you send emails from your personal email account or work email, you can encrypt them so that only the recipient can read them. In Microsoft Outlook, click on Tools, then Options and select the Security line.

Here you can enter a password, and no one will be able to open the letter without knowing this password. (You must, of course, give this password to the people for whom these letters are intended in advance.)

For personal correspondence using Internet mail services, use Frauenfelder's advice. When you check your email, add an s after "http" in the address bar of your email site - for example, https://www.Gmail.com. This way you will start a secure session and no one will be able to track your emails. However, not all web services support this.

To encode your communications in real time, use Cerulean Studios' Trillian service, which works with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and other real-time chat programs and helps you encode your conversations so that no one else can read them.

Risk: The main reason companies monitor employee emails is to catch those passing on sensitive information. By resorting to all of the above tricks, you can provoke a false alarm and make it difficult for IT department employees to deal with a real threat.

How to protect yourself: Use the methods described only occasionally, and do not use them by default.

8. How to get remote access to work email if your company doesn’t want to go broke on a PDA

Problem: Anyone who doesn't have a PDA knows the feeling: you go to a restaurant for lunch or a beer after work, and everyone reaches into their pockets for their PDAs, and you're the only one forced to dangle a glass in your hand.

Workaround: You too can stay in touch with your work email using a variety of mobile devices. Simply set up your work email so that emails are forwarded to your personal email address.

In Microsoft Outlook, you can do this by right-clicking on any email, selecting "Create Rule" and asking that all emails be forwarded to another address. Then set up your cell phone to check your email using the instructions from your ISP (the company that sends you your phone bills).

Risk: Now hackers can hack not only your computer, but also your phone.

How to protect yourself: There is a "correct" way to access work email using various personal mobile devices by obtaining the password and other information from the IT department.

9. How to access personal mail from a work PDA

Problem: If your company provided you with a PDA, you're probably facing the opposite problem. You want to check your personal email as easily as your work email.

Workaround: Pay attention to the "Settings" section of your personal mailbox and make sure that you have activated POP (postal protocol), which is used to receive mail through other addresses. Then go to your BlackBerry PDA service provider's website. Click on the "Profile" button, find the Email Accounts section there and select Other Email Accounts. Then click on Add Account and enter information about your personal email address. Now your personal mail will arrive in the same place as corporate mail.

Risk: Your company probably uses an arsenal of security tools to combat viruses and spyware. When you receive personal email on your BlackBerry, it bypasses these security barriers. That means spyware or viruses could get into your PDA through your personal email, says McAfee's Shmugar.

What's worse, he says, when you plug your BlackBerry into your work computer, there's a chance that spyware will transfer to your hard drive.

How to protect yourself: Cross your fingers and trust that your email provider is doing its best to protect against viruses and spyware (they probably do).

10. How to pretend you're working

Problem: You're busy doing a vital Internet search when suddenly your boss appears behind you. Your actions?

Workaround: Quickly press Alt-Tab to minimize one window (like the one you're exploring on ESPN.com) and open another (preparing for today's presentation).

Risk: The good news is that there is no threat to the company's security.

How to protect yourself: Get to work.

If in the company where you work, management carefully monitors all your activity on the Internet, then you are certainly wondering how to bypass proxies? Of course, not all sites are blocked, but nevertheless this situation causes some inconvenience. To avoid this, you can use the methods described below and bypass the limitation.

Bypassing the proxy server

When thinking about how to bypass proxies at work, you can use Google cache. This method will be useful for those who like to read blogs and various entertainment sites, since it allows you to view the page. To use it, you should open the google.com search engine, enter the address of the required site in the search bar, and after the search is completed, you need to find it in the list of detected ones. Then you should click on the “Saved copy” link and a tab with a copy of the site you are interested in will open in front of you.

You can also bypass the proxy server by using anonymizer services. Moreover, with their help, it is quite possible to carry out full-fledged activity on the network and not be afraid for the safety of your history, since all page addresses you visit are encrypted. Similar services can be found using a search engine. After entering the site, you should use the resource map or search form to find the line for entering the site address you are interested in. You should also know that most anonymizers that work effectively with entertainment sites and social networks can be paid. Data compression services work according to the same scheme. But to use them, you will need to install certain software, or work through a form that can be found on the website.

In addition, Opera mini will help you bypass the proxy, which you need to download and install on your PC. This program is notable in that it differs from a regular browser in the way it loads pages. After you send your request, it first goes to opera.com, then redirects to the site you need. Then the information from the site is again sent to opera.com, and then sent to your computer. As a result, you can view any site without any restrictions. To speed up page loading, you should disable loading applications and images. It should also be taken into account that Opera mini was created for mobile phones, as a result, before launching it you will need to download and install a java emulator. Now you know how to bypass the proxy server and nothing will stop you from reading your favorite blog or website.

To bypass messenger blocking, you can use a proxy or VPN. From this article you will learn how to bypass Telegram blocking using 3 methods:

  • Through a VPN tunnel;
  • Automatically installing MTProxy using a bot;
  • Manually, by specifying a proxy server for Telegram.

How to bypass blocking via VPN

A VPN is a secure channel through which all Internet traffic on a device passes. It affects not only the operation of Telegram, but also other programs, such as a browser or email client.

The main advantage of VPN is gaining access to any resources blocked in Russia. All sites will work as if the user is in another country. However, this approach also has a number of disadvantages:

  • Internet speed may noticeably decrease;
  • Many sites will open in a foreign language.

When using a free service, the user will be limited by a traffic limit, which is usually several gigabytes. This may cause problems with connection speed. A paid subscription works without restrictions, but you will have to pay a few dollars every month for it. The most reliable companies are NordVPN, ExpressVPN and PrivateVPN.

Let's look at the process of installing a free VPN on Android and iOS.

VPN for Telegram on Android

The easiest way to install a VPN on Android is to use an application from Google Play. We list the most popular options and indicate the traffic limit for each of them:

  • TunnelBear (1.5 GB)
  • Windscribe (10 GB)
  • FinchVPN (3 GB)
  • ProtoVPN (no restrictions)

Let's look at the installation process using Windscribe as an example.

  1. Go to Google Play and download the program.
  2. Open the application and create an account by selecting the “Free” tariff.
  3. Click "On" on the main screen.

If the speed is too slow, try changing the server location.

VPN for Telegram on iOS

To set up a VPN on iOS, download one of the following applications from the AppStore:

  • TunnelBear
  • Betternet
  • SurfEasy VPN
  • FreeVPN

All services except TunnelBear offer unlimited traffic. At the same time, they can significantly reduce the speed and show advertising. Using Betternet as an example, let's see how to set up a VPN proxy for Telegram on iOS.

  1. Go to the App Store and download Betternet.
  2. Open the program and click the “Install Profile” button.
  3. Click "Connect".

Setting up a proxy for Telegram using a bot

The easiest way to set up Telegram through a proxy is to use the @BestMTProxyBot bot, which will automatically set the connection parameters. This is the official bot of the Telegram team, which works quickly and for free. In return, the service will show advertisements for sponsoring channels at the top of the contact list. Let's look at the process of working with the bot step by step.