OONI blocking (website and backend infrastructure) in China since 2023-07-07

[wkrp]

OONI has a new post about blocking of ooni.org and the OONI Probe measurements collection infrastructure in China.

https://ooni.org/post/2023-china-blocks-ooni/

See the drastic drop-off in measurements for yourself:

https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=CN&since=2023-06-01&until=2023-07-29&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=web_connectivity

If you are in China, there are circumvention instructions to continue contributing measurements using OONI Probe.

[wkrp]

I took another look at OONI MAT Charts for China today, and was surprised to see, about three weeks after the blocking event on 2023-07-07, the number of measurements bounce back to the level they were before, and more recently even higher:

https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=CN&since=2023-01-01&until=2024-05-21&time_grain=week&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=web_connectivity

But because of a comment in another thread, I also looked at the chart for AS4538, which is CERNET in China. That one went down in July 2023 and stayed down:

https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=CN&probe_asn=AS4538&since=2023-01-01&until=2024-05-21&time_grain=week&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=web_connectivity

Here's a chart with a row for each AS: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=CN&since=2023-01-01&until=2023-12-31&time_grain=month&axis_x=measurement_start_day&axis_y=probe_asn&test_name=web_connectivity