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Hey, I put that list up. All credit for that list goes to 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 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.

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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/ and oops, github IP will be inaccessible indefinitely.

Just find another way please!

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/autoproxy-gfwlist/source/browse/tr...

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-...

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.

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/ They reversed engineered almost everything about GFW, socially and technically.

Btw also this masterpiece http://www.chinagfw.org/2009/08/gfw_30.html which triggered a man hunt and serious online crack down in China

Ok, I took it down. It won't be as simple as 'just encod[ing[ with whatever method', as users right now copy and paste their lists in. So this will be a step back. We need someone to code a way to add encrypted lists, and we've got several higher priority things on our plate. Hopefully someone will help out with an open source contribution.

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

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.

How is Lantern different from tor?

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-... for some info on the tech.

Many thanks for the information.

very good

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