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yinghuocho/firefly-proxy

A proxy software to help circumventing the Great Firewall. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/yinghuocho/firefly-proxy · Go · BSD-2-Clause (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4320
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2849
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4807 stars · 855 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Firefly is a cross-platform proxy client written in Go designed to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, with builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. It bundles a proxy/VPN client experience inspired by projects like Lantern and tun2socks.

Use cases

  • bypass the great firewall
  • access blocked websites from china
  • proxy client for android and ios
  • circumvent internet censorship
  • self-hosted proxy to get past the gfw

When to choose

  • you need a lightweight censorship-circumvention proxy on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, or iOS
  • you want an open-source alternative to Lantern-style tools

When to avoid

  • you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2018
  • you need a general-purpose VPN rather than a censorship-circumvention proxy
  • you require modern protocol support or recent security patches

Facets

application · maturity abandoned

proxy vpn privacy networking censorship-circumvention privacy networking windows cross-platform great-firewall anti-censorship go vpn-client last-release-2018 macos linux android ios

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
yinghuocho/firefly-proxymain23

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