A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability

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Authors Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson, Shoaib Asif Qazi, Shaarif Sajid, Michael Carl Tschantz arXiv ID 1806.00459 Category cs.NI: Networking & Internet Citations 19 Venue FOCI @ USENIX Security Symposium Last Checked 3 months ago
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This paper examines different reasons the websites may vary in their availability by location. Prior works on availability mostly focus on censorship by nation states. We look at three forms of server-side blocking: blocking visitors from the EU to avoid GDPR compliance, blocking based upon the visitor's country, and blocking due to security concerns. We argue that these and other forms of blocking warrant more research.
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