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Life & fun · April 19, 2013

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Shadowsocks - A high-performance cross-platform secured socks5 proxy

A fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.

Shadowsocks - A high-performance cross-platform secured socks5 proxy launched on April 19, 2013 with 7 votes, #134 of 528 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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What it does

Bleeding edge techniques using Asynchronous I/O and Event-driven programming. Secured with industry level encryption algorithm. Flexible to support custom algorithms. Optimized for mobile device and wireless network, with low CPU and bandwidth usage. Available on most platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, andfrom shadowsocks.org

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