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OK, so I'm sitting here, posting to HN in Firefox. And if I like, I can open a terminal and run something like: traceroute news.ycombinator.com | grep -f c
by mirimir 8y ago
OK, so I'm sitting here, posting to HN in Firefox. And if I like, I can open a terminal and run something like:
traceroute news.ycombinator.com | grep -f chinese-ipv4 -f chinese-hosts
And indeed, there could be a Firefox extension that did that, right? So at least, users would know.
- jwbensley 8y agoIts difficult for the "average user" (define as you please) to know what what path should look like though. Lots of ISPs will have private peerings to others ISPs/content providers/carriers etc. which aren't publically listed anywhere.
- mirimir 8y agoI'm not suggesting that the (say) Firefox extension would show the path. It would just show whether the path included devices in whatever country. In this case, China. Users wouldn't need to know details. There are many sources of geolocation data that the extension could draw upon.