this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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I don’t see how this could be easily enforced if every website uses encryption. Once it’s encrypted it’s pretty much impossible for anyone to identify what’s what.
You should talk to the people in Russia right now. They could tell you a thing, or two about VPN blockage, and traffic filtering.
You't see how what could be easily enforced?
HTTPS and VPN have very little to do with each other. The source and target of the communications are still quite clear that you can see that the source and destination are the VPN instead of an end user.
From a large corporate website or a network provider standpoint VPNs stick out like a sore thumb. Hell, we can detect tor and I2P nodes, and those actually, take work to differentiate.