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Anticensorship projects on GitHub

Proxy and tunneling software for defeating internet censorship.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Anticensorship projects on GitHub are Xray-core (42.2K stars), v2ray-core (34.7K stars) and clash-rules (28.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 16 Anticensorship repositories with 289.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was panda-vpn-pro, with +43 stars in a day.

16Projects

289.3KStars in total

+148Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

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panda-vpn-pro

DiningFactory/panda-vpn-pro · ★ 16.5K

A Chinese-language guide recommending cheap 'airports' — subscription proxy services for getting past China's Great Firewall — written by an author burned by PandaVPN Pro, paired with practical advice on choosing and paying for them safely.

+25

clash-rules

Loyalsoldier/clash-rules · ★ 28.9K

Ready-made rule lists (RULE-SETs) for the Clash Premium core: domain and IP lists telling your client what goes direct, what goes through your proxy, and what gets blocked (like ads). You just load them from URLs.

+16

mtproto.zig

sleep3r/mtproto.zig · ★ 2.1K

mtproto.zig is a tiny self-hosted MTProto proxy for Telegram that disguises your traffic as ordinary TLS 1.3 HTTPS, so censors and DPI filters can't tell it's Telegram. You run it on your own cheap VPS and share a single tg:// link with people who want their Telegram unblocked.

+15

Xray-core

XTLS/Xray-core · ★ 42.2K

Xray-core is the engine of 'Project X', a networking/proxy platform that implements protocols like VLESS, VMess, Trojan and Shadowsocks, with REALITY and XTLS for traffic obfuscation and censorship circumvention.

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16 projects · by stars

#1 · XTLS/Xray-core
Xray-core
Xray-core is the engine of 'Project X', a networking/proxy platform that implements protocols like VLESS, VMess, Trojan and Shadowsocks, with REALITY and XTLS for traffic obfuscation and censorship circumvention.
42.2K
#2 · v2fly/v2ray-core
v2ray-core
V2Ray (Project V) is a set of network tools for building your own proxy network, encrypting your connections to protect privacy and bypass network restrictions like censorship.
34.7K
#3 · Loyalsoldier/clash-rules
clash-rules
Ready-made rule lists (RULE-SETs) for the Clash Premium core: domain and IP lists telling your client what goes direct, what goes through your proxy, and what gets blocked (like ads). You just load them from URLs.
28.9K

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GoodbyeDPI
28.8KValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI · C
A free Windows utility that bypasses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems ISPs use to block websites. It handles both passive DPI (optical splitter or port mirroring) and active DPI connected in sequence.
5
gfwlist
25.7Kgfwlist/gfwlist
It is the official GFWList: a community-maintained list of websites blocked by China's Great Firewall, which circumvention tools load to decide which traffic needs to go through a proxy.
6
v2ray-rules-dat
20.9KLoyalsoldier/v2ray-rules-dat
Enhanced drop-in replacements for the official V2Ray geoip.dat and geosite.dat routing rule files, used by V2Ray, Xray-core, mihomo (Clash-Meta), hysteria, Trojan-Go, leaf and GUI clients on those cores to decide which traffic goes direct, through the proxy, or gets blocked.
7
hosts
20.6Kgooglehosts/hosts
GoogleHosts is a project that provides a hosts file mapping Google and other blocked domains to accessible IP addresses, so Chinese-speaking users can reach these services without DNS censorship interference.
8
trojan
19.7Ktrojan-gfw/trojan · C++
Trojan is a censorship-circumvention proxy — an 'unidentifiable mechanism' built to get your traffic across China's Great Firewall (GFW).
9
ZeroNet
18.8KHelloZeroNet/ZeroNet · JavaScript
ZeroNet is open-source software for a decentralized web: it lets you publish and visit websites that use Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network for distribution instead of a traditional hosting provider.
10
Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules
16.7Kh2y/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules · Python
A collection of rule files for the iOS app Shadowrocket that let you selectively route traffic through a proxy to get around China's firewall, while also filtering out ads in web pages, apps and videos.
11
panda-vpn-pro
16.5KDiningFactory/panda-vpn-pro
A Chinese-language guide recommending cheap 'airports' — subscription proxy services for getting past China's Great Firewall — written by an author burned by PandaVPN Pro, paired with practical advice on choosing and paying for them safely.
12
vpn-configs-for-russia
9.3Kigareck/vpn-configs-for-russia
A free, auto-updated collection of VPN and Tor configurations tested to work in Russia, for bypassing Roskomnadzor's black- and whitelist blocking.
13
russia-mobile-internet-whitelist
3.8Khxehex/russia-mobile-internet-whitelist
A community-maintained list of domains and IP ranges that stay reachable in Russia even when mobile internet gets throttled or filtered, meant to be fed into VPN or proxy clients so their traffic blends in with what the government allows through.
14
mtproto.zig
2.1Ksleep3r/mtproto.zig · Zig
mtproto.zig is a tiny self-hosted MTProto proxy for Telegram that disguises your traffic as ordinary TLS 1.3 HTTPS, so censors and DPI filters can't tell it's Telegram. You run it on your own cheap VPS and share a single tg:// link with people who want their Telegram unblocked.
15
gate
516hezhanleiok/gate · Python
It automates scraping VPN Gate's SSTP home-broadband/datacenter nodes, verifies each one with a checker Worker, groups them by country, and publishes an auto-rotating node list that edgetunnel can pull as chained proxy entries.
16
GoLiveBypass
274bezumiya/GoLiveBypass · TypeScript
GoLiveBypass is a tool that restores Discord's Go Live screen share and camera for users connecting from Brazil, by routing the Discord process through a non-Brazilian exit (Tor, a tested free proxy, or a private WireGuard/ProtonVPN tunnel) so Discord's servers no longer see a Brazilian IP.