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Hey, I put that list up. All credit for that list goes to http://autoproxy-gfwlist.googlecode.com http://autoproxy-gfwlist.googlecode.com. I just used the firef

Hey, I put that list up. All credit for that list goes to http://autoproxy-gfwlist.googlecode.com http://autoproxy-gfwlist.googlecode.com. I just used the firefox plugin and extracted that list with some regex and de-duplication. I made the list for http://getlantern.orga http://getlantern.orga censorship circumvention app I work on. So the list is designed to work with our app, and it's easier to just use the whole domain than the domains that are blocked. Contributions welcome, we just want more of these types of lists for users in China to plug in to their Lantern's.

zmh 13y ago
3 days after the launch, there have been 8500 users, mostly chinese users. Some reported that they joined twitter the first time. They are hoping more users join from overseas to help the speed.
rurounijones 13y ago
How is Lantern different from tor?
- cholmesny 13y ago
  Lantern's main goal is fast access, Tor's is anonymity. We know the Tor developers, and recommend their tool for when people must be anonymous and secure. Lantern aims more at mainstream users who just want to avoid censors for fast access to the open web. It also uses some different approaches, see https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-Questions-and-Answers https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-... for some info on the tech.
  - rurounijones 13y ago
    Many thanks for the information.
est 13y ago
Oh God please stop this. Autoproxy using encoded format[1] for a reason: Avoid getting Google Code or Github getting blocked. Your plain text list will lead to total blocking of Github, All it takes is some random assholes to "report" Github to http://net.china.com.cn/ http://net.china.com.cn/ and oops, github IP will be inaccessible indefinitely. Just find another way please! [1]: https://code.google.com/p/autoproxy-gfwlist/source/browse/trunk/gfwlist.txt https://code.google.com/p/autoproxy-gfwlist/source/browse/tr...
- cholmesny 13y ago
  What other way would you recommend? I'm definitely open to other solutions. Patches accepted - but we need a way to easily get users a good default list. I'm also not sure I'm convinced that just that list will get all of github blocked. What evidence do you have to support that? Lantern itself on github seems more 'dangerous' than just the list of sites. And none of our Chinese users seemed to think this is an issue. I'll ask the greatfire guys, as I'm in touch with them. They wrote a great article on the last time github was blocked: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/github-blocked-china-how-it-happened-how-get-around-it-and-where-it-will-take-us https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/github-blocked-china-... Also will try to ask the autoproxy guys directly - I'm not sure if their reason for using the encoded format is the reason you say.
  - est 13y ago
    just encode is with whatever method you choose, don't leave the list as plain text so anyone could view it and "judge" it. greatfire.org is an OK website for now, history record shows it's not that reliable. If you need any in-depth prior art take a look at Chinese researchers did at GFW Review http://gfwrev.blogspot.com/ http://gfwrev.blogspot.com/ They reversed engineered almost everything about GFW, socially and technically. Btw also this masterpiece http://www.chinagfw.org/2009/08/gfw_30.html http://www.chinagfw.org/2009/08/gfw_30.html which triggered a man hunt and serious online crack down in China
    - cholmesny 13y ago
footpath 13y ago
Lantern seems a lot like the Hola Unblocker (http://hola.org/faq.html#ub_cost http://hola.org/faq.html#ub_cost), although Hola is ad-supported and not open source.
tingyan5621 13y ago
very good

zmh 13y ago

3 days after the launch, there have been 8500 users, mostly chinese users. Some reported that they joined twitter the first time. They are hoping more users join from overseas to help the speed.

rurounijones 13y ago

How is Lantern different from tor?

cholmesny 13y ago
Lantern's main goal is fast access, Tor's is anonymity. We know the Tor developers, and recommend their tool for when people must be anonymous and secure. Lantern aims more at mainstream users who just want to avoid censors for fast access to the open web. It also uses some different approaches, see https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-Questions-and-Answers https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-... for some info on the tech.
- rurounijones 13y ago
  Many thanks for the information.

est 13y ago

Oh God please stop this. Autoproxy using encoded format[1] for a reason: Avoid getting Google Code or Github getting blocked. Your plain text list will lead to total blocking of Github, All it takes is some random assholes to "report" Github to http://net.china.com.cn/ http://net.china.com.cn/ and oops, github IP will be inaccessible indefinitely. Just find another way please! [1]: https://code.google.com/p/autoproxy-gfwlist/source/browse/trunk/gfwlist.txt https://code.google.com/p/autoproxy-gfwlist/source/browse/tr...

cholmesny 13y ago
What other way would you recommend? I'm definitely open to other solutions. Patches accepted - but we need a way to easily get users a good default list. I'm also not sure I'm convinced that just that list will get all of github blocked. What evidence do you have to support that? Lantern itself on github seems more 'dangerous' than just the list of sites. And none of our Chinese users seemed to think this is an issue. I'll ask the greatfire guys, as I'm in touch with them. They wrote a great article on the last time github was blocked: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/github-blocked-china-how-it-happened-how-get-around-it-and-where-it-will-take-us https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/github-blocked-china-... Also will try to ask the autoproxy guys directly - I'm not sure if their reason for using the encoded format is the reason you say.
- est 13y ago
  just encode is with whatever method you choose, don't leave the list as plain text so anyone could view it and "judge" it. greatfire.org is an OK website for now, history record shows it's not that reliable. If you need any in-depth prior art take a look at Chinese researchers did at GFW Review http://gfwrev.blogspot.com/ http://gfwrev.blogspot.com/ They reversed engineered almost everything about GFW, socially and technically. Btw also this masterpiece http://www.chinagfw.org/2009/08/gfw_30.html http://www.chinagfw.org/2009/08/gfw_30.html which triggered a man hunt and serious online crack down in China
  - cholmesny 13y ago

footpath 13y ago

Lantern seems a lot like the Hola Unblocker (http://hola.org/faq.html#ub_cost http://hola.org/faq.html#ub_cost), although Hola is ad-supported and not open source.

tingyan5621 13y ago

very good