AirVPN similarly supports many projects including tor, ooni, opennic etc., but this "tech-savvy" guy conveniently chooses not to review it and many others including tor guard, due to issues in site navigation.
You can use a ssl tunnel to avoid DPI detection by your censored network or ISP. It will obfuscate your openvpn tunnel with another ssl layer, although you'll take a performance hit.
Packages like STunnel/stunnel might help(available for both windows/linux).
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