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No. If you masquerade as HTTPS you can set your SNI to trump.example.com or republicans.example.com and nobody would dare to slow down this traffic. If you have a custom, detectable protocol then you already lost the game.

There is not only censorship, but traffic shaping when some apps are given a slow lane to speed up other apps. By making your protocol identifiable you gain nothing good.



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