[justDankin]

I'm one of the authors of the paper in the post, we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India.

We've compiled these tests into an android app, please consider running it if you live in India and would like to contribute to the research :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.censorwatc...

It's completely anonymous, doesn't require any permissions, and does not store any user related information.

[dheerajvs]

In the interest of openness, would it be possible to open-source the app and host it on F-Droid[1]?

[1]https://f-droid.org/

[wtmt]

Do you have any plans of releasing an iOS app anytime soon? I’m going to recommend the Android app to people I know, but it would be good to have something for the iOS users too.

[justDankin]

Unfortunately we don't have the expertise or bandwidth to make that :/

[FerretFred]

Thanks! This is interesting/useful/worrying. I note that there's an emphasis on web censorship, but do you have a feel for how other protocols are affected? I know that if the "plug" is pulled, everything would be affected, but what about file transfers using SFTP or FTP?

[sbmthakur]

The sites/domains that the app checks while running the probe are listed anywhere?

[justDankin]

We released a subset of the data along with the paper (~5K hostnames), can be accessed at https://github.com/kush789/How-India-Censors-The-Web-Data

The app uses a more updated list (roughly 10K hostnames)