RaccoonLine Publishes 2026 Report on Global VPN Blocking and DPI Enforcement

**Executive summary:** RaccoonLine's 2026 Global Censorship Tier Analysis categorizes censorship into three tiers—Tier 1 (DNS/IP blocking), Tier 2 (active VPN blocking), and Tier 3 (machine-learning DPI)—and assesses which VPN protocols and architectures survive in each environment; it reports that ML-enhanced DPI in Tier 3 has degraded protocols like VMess while VLESS with REALITY and decentralized/residential routing offer the best resilience, and notes that complete infrastructure shutdowns cannot be circumvented by VPNs.