I have stumbled upon this seller. However unsure which are of value, and how to even decide? They seem expensive. I would not want to spend half of the price that I would on a new powerful laptop in a second hand device.
Oh no. I am 20 year late to the party it seems. Video creation is extremely challenging endeavour though. I tried for some time but failed to create good videos. (Ironically, videos are still racking up organic views whereas I have to promote blog to popular sites to gain traction)
I would recommend to start with Wireguard, test it out with a VPS and one client computer before installing it for other family members on other computers.
Another tip, for enhanced comfort and ease of installation: most modern routers, even cheap travel routers, can function as a Wireguard client. So you could install an additional router, downstream of your main router, and create a wifi access point for your family, which tunnels all traffic to the VPS. The advantage is that you do not have to install wireguard on every client machine. You just install wireguard on the VPS, and you enter the wireguard keys and other config information in the wireguard config screen of the router.
At the same time you can leave your existing router running with wifi, so that your family can switch between censored and non-censored internet by simply switching from one to the other wifi access point. Why have both options? First, because non-tunneled internet will still be faster than tunneled internet (I guess), second, because some websites or government-run services in your country may only be available from within the country.
You can start with the wireguard only and see how that works.
You can "dry run" by setting up a local staging server on your LAN (using some nonblocked sites to test) first and then replicate on the VPS.
Try to get comfortable with tcpdump and wireshark to troubleshoot and verify.
Recommended to use some configuration management (ansible or whatever you prefer) so you can easily jump to a new provider if need be in the future.
If things are working fine locally but not on the VPS, that's when filtering may be at play (also check your MTUs; this is where tcpdump is your friend). You can add obfuscation under wireguard (meaning wg will be running on top of another overlay network). Shadowsocks used to be recommended. These days the Chinese are at the front of the game. Search for shadowsocks successors and you will find.
Sometimes openvpn (tcp) works more reliably where wireguard (udp) doesn't.
Also take care of your DNS. Check for leaks.
Sometimes it's more straightforward and can be safer to set up a forwarding HTTP or TCP proxy on the VPS (and/or locally: these can be chained) and configuring that in your browser/apps rather than straight up routing all traffic over the tunnel.
Consider how much you trust the VPS provider and its infra provider(s). If you want to be more careful you can set up multi-hop, exiting either via another VPS on a separate provider or a commercial VPN provider. Using a commercial provider for your exit can help improve anonymity wrt to the sites you visit (since your IP won't be unique from their view).
Oh, and do try to get off facebook, youtube, instagram, reddit, discord. It's really time to migrate for several reasons. Try to find better online connection points for your friends and family, as well as connecting to the world, than US Big Tech (yes I see the irony in saying that here).
Finally Nepal took a bold decision on world stage. Much needed. Social media companies leech of these "unemployed" nepalese who are getting funds from remittance via saudi, qatar. The "Dalal Pujibad" as socialist aahuti says. And mass consumerism. Needs to stop. He gives an example where Nepalese migrant workers earn money making "stuffs" in Saudi, Qatar, China, Malaysia etc. And they send money back to Nepal where they now buy those items that they made. (They could be any other migrant workers).
The intent of government can be questioned however But this is a right step in a forward direction anyhow.
This should have been done far earlier.
The blocks has been propagated fairly now. I cannot access facebook, whatsapp, linkedin, reddit (major sites, others I have not checked).
