The apps aren't currently designed with network-level blocking
circumvention in mind. It's certainly possible to be much more resilient
especially to something simple like a DNS blacklist, but:
* anything we do starts an arms race where smarter blocking could block
that too
* the apps are open source, so it's very easy to check how they work and
then design a fancier block
* such efforts might affect legal cases (IANAL)
-- brion
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Surely it should be possible to have a more resilient
access to Wikipedia
content in the app than most vanilla browsers provide?
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017, 13:40 Florian Schmidt <
florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de> wrote:
Because the app uses the same base URL for the
requests to Wikipedia as
other access methods (e.g. internet browsers), a block a Wikipedia would
apply to the App, too. Sorry, but there's no way to work around this, if
a
block is implemented to block all requests to a
specific domain. One
workaround on the client side would be to use a VPN, so that the request
will be made from another origin and the answer forwarded to your
phone/computer. However, I'm not sure, if this is allowed in any way.
Best,
Florian
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Does it also affect the app?
If so, why, and can we circumvent that?
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