Shadowsocks is basically an open-source for bypassing the censored content on internet. It was introduced in 2012 by a Chinese programmer with an anonymous name “CLOWWINDY”. It is used, widely, to access the restricted web sources in one’s country and to hide your identity in order to work anonymously. Shadowsocks came to the mainstream when great firewall in china occurred, that is the blocking of major VPN providers. It became popular as an alternative for VPN, but it is exactly not a VPN like service. After successful implementation of the protocols employed in the Shadowsocks, since then, several other applications have been developed using these protocols.
What Shadowsocks is for
It is mainly aimed at going past censorship with HTTPS and deceived traffic restrictions. Shadowsocks runs on the client side using a software application support, which, like SSH tunnel, runs socks5 proxy to divert internet traffic. But unlike SSH tunnel, UDP (User Datagram Protocol) traffic can also be diverted using Shadowsocks. What Shadowsocks does is that it creates a concealed connected between the proxy server running in your computer and the Shadowsocks client in user system with the help of SOCKS5, which is an open source internet protocol.