Seize Privacy NOW!!!!

omg .now is valid TLD so seizeprivacy.now could exist
— @seizeleft on 19:49 UTC 6/7/2026

This website will cover aspects of privacy, as well as censorship circumvention technologies as they’re also relevant to the discussion!

Trojan: A Sudden Enlightenment in the Proxy World

ssl.md In 2013—2 years before Victoria Raymond began developing V2Ray and 7 years before another project I’ll introduce (in a later blog post) was released—the original creator of Shadowsocks, clowwindy, had already written “ssl.md”, a very brief GitHub Gist explaining why he believed SSL/TLS shouldn’t be used to bypass the firewall. He believed that a proxy protocol should achieve two things: first, “preventing detection of which websites the client is visiting,” and second, “preventing detection that the server is providing circumvention services.” He argued that because SSL/TLS contains “identity information,” it makes it easier for censors to not only discover proxy servers but also to specifically block all other proxies using the same certificate, even if their IP addresses haven’t been found. (While this argument might sound a bit odd now, you have to remember that Let’s Encrypt hadn’t launched yet back then, and getting a TLS certificate was still a very manual process that could involve linking personal information!) ...

V2Ray — Beyond Censorship Circumvention?

An article in South China Morning Post stated that V2Ray is a reliable way for many people in China to access the global internet; these users are either technically proficient or subscribe to paid services. V2Ray is also described as the spiritual successor to Shadowsocks, and support for (…) TLS is seen as an improvement over Shadowsocks; these features can disguise traffic as visits to unblocked websites. — Wikipedia on V2Ray ...

Every 3 Seconds. This Maps App Just Can't Stop Phoning Home.

A Really Good Navigation App? Despite its size, Macau’s maze-like streets are easily a hundred times more intricate than those of neighbouring Zhuhai. I’ve been to Macau on several occasions and have had trouble navigating around using Google Maps. The location shown on Google Maps is always quite a bit off from where it actually is, which feels similar to what you get in mainland China. I was so confused and had no idea how to get around the problem. After all, Google isn’t blocked in Macau and the territory does not use the obfuscated GCJ-02 system. Just then, a friend I was with suddenly said, “Why don’t you try Amap?” I stared at the icon of Amap on my phone, lost in thought. Why? Because I had just used the very app to get around in Zhuhai, Guangdong before I crossed the border into Macau! ...

Shadowsocks – Speech that Enables Speech

This is the first blog post in a series where I put down the history and my thoughts on some proxy protocols. This series is dedicated to the server “Foci’s Corner”, because it’s semi-requested by one of its members. Thank you for your support! – Doodle Huang “Speech that Enables Speech” – that is how the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) describes the technology that starts a new era of bypassing internet censorship, which has since been driven by the open-source community! ...

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Everyone is welcome to contribute to the website because it’s also open-source on Codeberg! Please keep an eye on this website for updates. For now, I’m going to bed as I’m feeling too sleepy :)