Access Telegram without VPN from India
The Indian government has banned Telegram in India for a limited time and the ban is implemented to prevent organized cheating rackets and misinformation ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination. I don't think this is a sensible solution, because my work is affected as I did all my work related communication in Telegram.
While I have now fully moved to Signal, here's a trick to still use Telegram in India without using VPN but using the Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. I tried this both on my macOS laptop and also on my Android device, and it works as expected.
On my macOS device:
I downloaded the macOS app for my device and installed it and just connected as Traffic and DNS (UDP) as you see in the screenshot here.
After that I opened the Telegram app, and it got connected and started working after a few seconds.
On my Android device:
I already had the 1.1.1.1 app installed on my Android device, but that's not available on Google Play Store anymore. However, there's a very simple way to do a manual setup on Android in their official docs that you can follow.
After the setup, just open the Telegram app, and it works as expected.
Hope this helps.
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