My VPN hasn’t been working because it was banned

For the last few days, my VPN stopped working. Internet providers decided to ban the XRay/Vless protocols as well. I already tried to reconfigure my VPN client using Hiddify configs, hoping it would help. But everything turned out badly — none of my attempts to fix it brought any results. After that, I simply hoped that maybe after a few days it would start working again, but unfortunately nothing happened. My VPN still doesn’t work, and I’m starting to doubt it will ever work again. I also read some news channels about this, and they said that even China hasn’t banned this protocol. But in Russia they went even further and managed to block it.

However, I also have some good news. A few days ago, my company created a personal VPN for each employee. Now I can use that one. But it comes with some restrictions: they said everyone should use it only for work. Right now, I have no idea what will happen if they decide to check my traffic. I think it might not be a big problem if they just keep a list of all the websites I visit. But still, it’s a matter of privacy, which is important to me.

There is also something interesting about the timing. All of this happened around the same time. Last week, I received a config file with instructions from our system administrator, installed it on my laptop, and tested it. A few days later — I think it was Saturday — everything stopped working. It feels like they knew about the situation and decided to create a VPN for everyone because of it.

Another interesting point is the VPN protocols themselves. They are using WireGuard, and I used it sometimes too. But after some time it got banned as well. That’s why I switched to XRay/Vless. And now I really have no idea what is going on, because WireGuard works for them, but my XRay/Vless doesn’t work at all.