Interesting. UK ISPs have had a similar block/filter list for many years (mostly covering copyright-infringing torrent websites and the like). But it’s more robust than a simple DNS block. A VPN can bypass the block, but changing DNS providers will not.

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hsbauauvhabzb an hour ago | parent [-]

What / how do they do it then? SNI inspection?

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lategloriousgnu 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

The ISP's blackhole the IP for some blocked domains. So changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 will resolve the domain, but the IP won't work. A VPN avoids this, since the traffic goes via the VPN IP.

	▲	hsbauauvhabzb 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How would that work with cloudflare and similar though?