shadowsocks vs. VPN
shadowsocks
An open-sourced socks5-based proxy. It focuses on circumventing traffic restrictions (e.g. gorvernment censorship).
The packages in Shadowsocks are unencrypted
It works with multiple TCP connections to have faster speeds
It doesn't send all the traffic through a server
It is very difficult to detect and block as it masking the traffic to make it appear as HTTPS
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
It is designed for privacy and anonymity.
VPN encrypts all network traffic as long as it is enabled.
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