Greetings, shouldn't Browser Vendors provide useful suggestions to bypass censorship?
All browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE,etc) do provide specific error messages when an hostname does not resolve, if a connection is resetted or if timeout while connecting. When a censorship event happen, unless for traffic-redirection, specific errors are shown to the end-users. Those "error messages" represent the first experience of the end-user that censorship is happening. For sure the reasons behind a connection-timeout error could be many, effectively the browser vendors provide suggestions on how to try to debug/fix the problems like: - Check that you typed the name correctly - Check that your internet connection is working - Check that your proxy settings are valid Screenshot: https://twitter.com/fpietrosanti/status/450303350735532033/photo/1 Shouldn't Browser Vendors consider that a connection problem could be due to censorship, providing to the end-user also a tip to bypass censorship? Something like: - "Check that in your country there's no internet censorship, if so consider using a circumvention bypass technology. Click here for further information" That way hundreds million of users, whenever they get impacted by internet-censorship during their browsing activity, could have a valuable path to look at to "fix the problem" . I don't see many difficulties, but we should likely ask to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome team? Opinions? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
