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@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@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?
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