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Censorship issues #94

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opened 2024-04-11 09:25:39 +00:00 by kumi · 1 comment

kumi commented

2024-04-11 09:25:39 +00:00

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We received this message in the General Support Matrix room:

Hi guys! I really like your invidious instance, but I have some concerns that it might get blocked by Russian censorship. They've been doing it for a while - they designate some video on youtube "extremist", but they can't block youtube for political reasons, so they use crawlers to find and ban any site where said video would be published. Take look at this for example
https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?q=invidious - it's a monitoring project that shows blocked resources on the web, and there's a number of invidious instances Roskomnadzor already blocked.

Banning the crawlers might help mitigating some of the risks. Here's a project that collects data on what networks are being used by Roskomnadzor to host their crawlers https://github.com/C24Be/AS_Network_List/

You can also find a short instruction on how to block the crawlers in a few different ways https://freemedia.tech/block-rugov.html

I hope you'll find that useful.

I would suggest blocking the ASNs that are used by those crawlers, and also setting up some monitoring for that blocklist so we know when we end up on there. Any other ideas?

We received this message in the General Support Matrix room: > Hi guys! I really like your invidious instance, but I have some concerns that it might get blocked by Russian censorship. They've been doing it for a while - they designate some video on youtube "extremist", but they can't block youtube for political reasons, so they use crawlers to find and ban any site where said video would be published. Take look at this for example > https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?q=invidious - it's a monitoring project that shows blocked resources on the web, and there's a number of invidious instances Roskomnadzor already blocked. > > Banning the crawlers might help mitigating some of the risks. Here's a project that collects data on what networks are being used by Roskomnadzor to host their crawlers https://github.com/C24Be/AS_Network_List/ > > You can also find a short instruction on how to block the crawlers in a few different ways https://freemedia.tech/block-rugov.html > > I hope you'll find that useful. I would suggest blocking the ASNs that are used by those crawlers, and also setting up some monitoring for that blocklist so we know when we end up on there. Any other ideas?