Sometimes when you are traveling, studying or working overseas, you will inevitably need to visit some blocked websites in that country. To access to your favorite news broadcast or social media platforms in some countries with censorship mechanism, in addition to using the traditional, old-fashioned VPN springboard circumvent the blocks, there are more and more Internet proxy tools available to enable users to quickly evade the Internet censorship. Psiphon is one of the best.

As is known to all, the serious network blockade and censorship in Mainland China (namely the GFW founded in 1998) has given rise to numerous excellent proxy software from China, including but not limited to: Freegate, UltraSurf, SoftEther VPN, GoAgent, Shadowsocks, cow, Lantern, and more. Among them, Shadowsocks (AKA: 影梭) is a free, open-source, cross-platform, encrypted, and secure small proxy project from China. It uses the SOCKS5 proxy protocol (similar to SSH tunnel), and runs very, very fast. In China and many other countries, it's widely used to break through the GFW-like Internet blockade and censorship and access the disturbed, blocked, or shielded web sites and web services around the world, such as Google, YouTube, FaceBook/Twitter, and more.