Does anyone else use Shadowsocks?

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

Shadowsocks is a proxy program that doesn't need installing (at least my version didn't).

I've been using it to access wikipedia and youtube in China, but it stopped working a few weeks ago.
I would like to find out more about it.

Maybe I need a newer version (I've been using 2.5.1) but 4.9.2 does not unzip and 4.1.6 is an .exe file that does nothing (at least for me).

Or maybe I should try out different servers but I don't know how to get them.
Please let me know if u are using this open-source program.

 

[MaxiBash]

But... this is a question and not a tutorial...?
Perhaps you clicked on the wrong section.

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

I'd be happy about a tutorial. I got it working by scanning a QR code back then. But I don't know how it actually works (with servers and all).

 

[Ushiara]

China started to block shadowsocks and vpn couple of days ago.
Mine was blocked too (ip not port) and same in my office, port have been blocked, we changed it then it was blocked again 2h later

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

Oh...
You mentioned your office. Was your office/company exempt from the firewall prior to the change? I know some companies, e.g. educational ones, were able to still use wikipedia etc. Don't know about now.

 

[Ushiara]

I don't know about this, i'm not managing thre network on my company.
I just know this is not a "common" network but an "enterprise" one.
And before theses changes i was not able to use wikipedia and stuffs.

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

You said you changed it an then it was blocked again. You mean you found another server? How does one find other servers? I only have 2 QR codes and prior to the "shutdown" I switched between them whenever one wouldn't work for a while.

 

[Ushiara]

You said you changed it an then it was blocked again. You mean you found another server? How does one find other servers? I only have 2 QR codes and prior to the "shutdown" I switched between them whenever one wouldn't work for a while.

Yes, our shadowsocks was on the port 1082 and we changed it to the port 1083.
We are not using publics server or ones provided by random guys on wechat, we're setting up our own instances.

Edit: The best thing to do i guess is to wait until the end of this banwave

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

Yes, our shadowsocks was on the port 1082 and we changed it to the port 1083.
We are not using publics server or ones provided by random guys on wechat, we're setting up our own instances.

Edit: The best thing to do i guess is to wait until the end of this banwave

What is the danger of using public ones?