Thanks for testing. Part two of this would be to add new logic to automatically figure out if a user needs a bridge (which you absolutely do need in China), and then set it up without any interaction. For China, that means enabling meek or finding a fresh obfs4 bridge.
It is not surprising that you could never get Tor to work in China. It is technically possible, but not clear how to do it for most users, even sophisticated ones. A new study coming out soon ran a simulated censor state environment, and the vast majority of users figured out how to setup Tor Browser properly to get around it. On the other hand, while China is the gold standard of "does my proxy work" tests, in most parts of the world, plain vanilla tor still works without bridges. These are places where the surveillance and filtering is more passive and subtle. Brazil as an example is a place where blocking of specific apps is happening more often, but Tor works fine without any advanced configuration. Enough rambling. More soon. Thanks as always for the great feedback! On Mon, Mar 27, 2017, at 11:01 PM, Rick Valenzuela wrote: > Interesting idea, Nathan. > > The UI is nice, and I imagine the 'easy button' nature > of it would appeal to many. > > However, it doesn't work here in China. I connected, added Twitter, and > couldn't retrieve new tweets. It doesn't require root, nor any > non-default settings, correct? I am on a Nexus 5x running 7.1.2 > (NPG47I). > > That said, I never got Orbot working here without using another VPN > first. > > Best regards, > Rick > > -- > Rick Valenzuela > Videojournalist > Shanghai, China > _______________________________________________ > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] -- Nathan of Guardian [email protected] _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
