Sometimes websites censor bad content or download it, so developers invented a new tool to make it easier to track internet outages and help people avoid them. This is the Ooniprobe application , developed by the Open Network Interference Observatory, which monitors censorship Cyprus Mobile Number Database and surveillance networks , and will test network connectivity and let the user know when a site is being censored in their area. Ooniprobe tests more than 1,200 websites, including social networks and WhatsApp and will report how long you should run the test based on your bandwidth and blocked websites will appear in red, while available sites will appear in green.
To test connectivity, Ooniprobe mimics what a browser does when connecting to a website, that is, it tries to establish a connection with the IP address to a site and downloads the web page, and while comparing the activity with the same test on an uncensored network, and if it doesn’t match, the site is likely censored. The observatory examines networks from more than 90 countries and periodically publishes the results on censored sites, and plans to do so in the app as well. The organization has confirmed data censorship cases in several countries, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Ooniprobe tests web connectivity to not only find out the blocked sites, but shows how they are being censored, it can Phone Number List also test if the IP addresses are blocked, so it proceeds to look for “middleboxes” or network devices that manipulate the traffic Web. The application can help Internet users to detect how censorship and surveillance impact their daily lives, as something as abstract as a web portal is censored.