Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo

#1

Post by rqs » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:15 PM UTC

Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo
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#2

Post by rqs » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:24 PM UTC

Without Google Translation (In Chinese): https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/24904#issuecomment-47...

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#3

Post by duxup » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:41 PM UTC

The actual browsers are hard coded to filter a single github repo?

Is it common for them to filter at the browser level?

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Post by hyper_reality » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:43 PM UTC

Discussion last week on HN with more info about what 996ICU is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498179

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#5

Post by noeatnosleep » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:43 PM UTC

Shocking!

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#6

Post by jnmandal » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

This is outrageous. 团结

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#7

Post by rqs » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #3

The actual browsers are hard coded to filter a single github repo? Is it common for them to filter at the browser level?

Maybe those web browsers are linked to a online URL database. If any URL is matched in the database, then they will refuse to load the page.

But if true, that also means those web browsers are querying a online database when user is trying to access a URL.

Not a good news no matter how you hold it.

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Post by yorwba » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC

rqs wrote: post #2

Without Google Translation (In Chinese): https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/24904#issuecomment-47...

> 加?问号随机参数试试，微信可以打开

The block isn't very smart if it can be circumvented by adding random query parameters with a question mark.

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Post by yorwba » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

According to this thread on V2EX, the block was changed to a redirect to GitHub's 404 page: https://www.v2ex.com/t/551405#reply19

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#10

Post by duxup » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

rqs wrote: post #7

duxup wrote: post #3

The actual browsers are hard coded to filter a single github repo? Is it common for them to filter at the browser level?

Maybe those web browsers are linked to a online URL database. If any URL is matched in the database, then they will refuse to load the page. But if true, that also means those web browsers are querying a online database when user is trying to access a URL. Not a good news no matter how you hold it.

Yeah no doubt that would be concerning.

Sadly not surprising.