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airtelblockon Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic

This is not about the block a month ago. This is a new block.

When it was blocked a month ago, there was no notice. Now, there is a notice that it is a TRAI order. usually seen on sites that the govt themselves ask to block (piratebay, torrentz.eu, etc)

airtelblockon Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic

Setting esni to enabled in Firefox partially works.

But Airtel really, really wants to run scripts and show ads on blocked pages.

Duckduckgo - https://i.postimg.cc/SqkRhpRC/Mozilla-Firefox-29-09-20-w-PA....

Pirate Bay - https://i.postimg.cc/qMmwMXVY/t-29-09-20-9-Dv.png

airtelblockon Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic

Duckduckgo is blocked in India with Airtel. HTTP url refuses to connect. I have to manually type https://duckduckgo.com to connect.

https://i.postimg.cc/SqkRhpRC/Mozilla-Firefox-29-09-20-w-PA....