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It wouldn't have to be giant. Ideally, it would just include those entries that are censored for political reasons sorted by location.

> It wouldn't have to be giant. Ideally, it would just include those entries that are censored for political reasons sorted by location.

I think you're underestimating the amount of stuff being blocked everywhere. Even in Spain where I live the list of blocked domains would be pretty big already, and it's just one country.

OONI gives a good overview: https://explorer.ooni.org/

the dns-block block-list

loving it

https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Only meaningful if you are on a desktop machine with root privilege (which most people here do have on their personal machines)

You really need a solution that works on every platform for everyone, which isn't easy.

Even for VPN like apps, well, they aren't allowed on China's Apple app store. Fortunately you can switch to a different store, download the app and switch back, and Android users can just sideload an apk as usual. But that's enough to show how complex this is.

(Another reason I absolutely hate Apple's walled garden.)