Guilty of using DeepL and a grammar checker to polish the English, since it’s not my native language and I didn’t want the technical points to get lost in translation!
But the actual content, the structure, and all the frustration with DPI firewalls blocking my nodes are 100% human and mine. :)
You are completely right, my apologies.
I was trying to share this technical deep-dive on DPI and ML with a few different communities because I thought the obfuscation part would be interesting to self-hosters. But I realize now that since many people (like you) subscribe to multiple tech communities, it just looks like spam clogging up your feed.
I will stop crossposting entirely. Thanks for calling me out on it, and sorry for the noise!
I absolutely love Mullvad for their privacy policies and the random account number system! If you just want to hide your torrents from your ISP, they are definitely top tier.
The problem is that their standard WireGuard endpoints are instantly blocked by modern DPI firewalls (try using Mullvad on a strict corporate network, or in heavily censored countries). They do offer Shadowsocks bridges for obfuscation, but it adds significant latency and is still vulnerable to active probing compared to VLESS/Reality’s TLS mimicry.
Mullvad is for ultimate anonymity. Reality is for ultimate censorship evasion. Different tools for different threat models! :)