The president of Psiphon, the company that created the tool to combat Internet censorship, shared statistics on how
After the summer presidential elections in the backgroundmass protests in Belarus began to regularly turn off the mobile Internet. To bypass the blockages, Belarusians began to use Psiphon. This tool uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies (VPN, SSH and HTTP proxy).
According to the president of the company, in four months4.81 petabytes of data from Belarusian users passed through Psiphon's network. The most popular instrument was in August. Then the number of Belarusian users of Psiphon was 2.5 million. In November, the number of users was about 310 thousand. During the protest march on December 6, for example, Psiphon in Belarus was connected more than a million times.