Roskomnadzor blocked the VPN service for providing access to prohibited sites

Roskomnadzor blocked the VPN service hideme.ru. This was stated by the representative of the department Vadim Ampelonsky, Interfax reports .

The service was blocked by the decision of the Buzuluk district court of the Orenburg region, Ampelonsky noted. The court found that the resource provides users with the possibility of accessing sites containing extremist materials. Information distributed through hideme.ru was recognized as a prohibited court in Russia. The lawsuit was filed by the prosecutor's office.

According to Ampelonsky, the prosecutor’s bodies will continue to file claims for blocking the VPN services this year. “We, in turn, will fulfill the courts of courts that have entered into force in the form in which they are written. There will be a demand for us to identify and block the“ mirrors ” - we will identify and block,” he said.

According to a representative of hideme.ru in Russia, the service fell under blocking despite the fulfillment of Roskomnadzor’s requirements to remove the form of anonymizer, that is, a special program that allows you to open blocked Internet resources. He specified that the site moved to the new Hidemy.name domain. The company representative calls the Service the largest in Eastern Europe. Using hidemy.name and similar services, users can remain anonymous when visiting sites, blogs, sending instant and mail, as well as when working with other applications.

As previously stated by the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, the department considers it unpromising struggle with access to blocked sites. According to him, no more than 5-7 percent of citizens uses these locks bypassing locks.

VPN allows you to change the IP address from which the user addresses external sites. VPN services are most often paid and cost from 5 to 15 dollars per month. Blocking also allow you to circumvent the built -in functions of browsers. In Opera and in Yandex Brauser, this is the Turbo mode, in Google Chrome - the traffic saving mode. We talk in detail about the methods of bypassing the blocking here .

Since March 13, 2014, the Grani website has been included in the register of prohibited resources for "calls for illegal activities and participation in mass events carried out in violation of the established procedure." By order of Roskomnadzor, providers throughout Russia block access to the "faces".