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How the internet censorship world turned on NetBlocks (wired.co.uk)
14 points by middleclick on July 19, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


They don’t even need to abuse the browser in order to collect this data. We achieved something very similar for a different end without any such behaviour. https://blog.eutopian.io/nsa-prisms-commercial-cousin/


https://web.archive.org/web/20191216021703if_/https:/twitter...

A fascinating exchange. It seems like Netblocks has no answers and starts attacking you?


This is about https://netblocks.org that are frequently quoted here and in the media when it comes to censorship and internet connectivity issues.

It seems like they are doing so without user consent and making up their data?




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