It appears Telegram also does not work without VPN in Russia.
We will be implementing connection rotation and redundancy it may reduce the impact. In any case, preventing transport-level blocking is a hard problem, especially if they start using LLM for traffic analysis. It is better to solve it in dedicated VPN solutions, not in the apps.
simplex / SimpleX Chat
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2026-03-21 16:42:55 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…2xy5
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