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This is a great workaround for the UAE and Saudi, which are "oppression lite." This would never work in a more oppressive country; the rulers there would simpl

This is a great workaround for the UAE and Saudi, which are "oppression lite." This would never work in a more oppressive country; the rulers there would simply fail to whitelist traffic going to Google Cloud / App Engine traffic. This is already evident on the other side of the Great Firewall. Still, pretty cool.

trome 10y ago
If they block Google.com sure, it won't work, but in that case Signal could just use a CDN they won't block, like Alicloud in China, or AWS or similar.
- Fnoord 10y ago
  Signal can use Cloudflare as well (the article I read first spoke of Cloudflare, not Google, but it wasn't in English). Blocking Cloudflare is going to break half the internet.
  - ycmbntrthrwaway 10y ago
    In Russia, Roskomnadzor does not care. The number of blocked CloudFlare IPs in Russia keeps growing and about one third of blocked IPs belong to CloudFlare: https://rublacklist.net/13108/ https://rublacklist.net/13108/ It is still a small percentage of CloudFlare IPs, but if you use free CloudFlare service for your website you are extremely likely to get IP that is already blocked. Actually, Roskomnadzor officially asked not to use CloudFlare sites: http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news24880.htm http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news24880.htm The message is don't hide behind CloudFlare or your sites will get blocked by IP without reason. China blocks Google fonts, it breaks half the internet by making all fonts requests timeout, but still the government does not care. When government starts blocking CDNs, most commercial websites aiming at users within the government will rapidly move off the CDN instead of freedom fighting, sadly.