Maria Xynou

@agrabeli6.bsky.social

Director @ooni.org | Board @torproject.org

‼️ Saudi Arabia just blocked Tinder explorer.ooni.org/findings/305... Today, OONI data shows that Tinder started being blocked on Mobily (AS35819) by means of TLS interference. We were alerted of this block through our new Censorship Alert System, an internal prototype we're testing. 🙏🐙 #ooni

OONI data on the blocking of Tinder in Saudi Arabia

According to WHO, access to accurate health information is essential for informed reproductive healthcare decisions. 🙏 Restricting access to that information can undermine people's ability to obtain timely, safe care and exercise their reproductive rights. ooni.org/post/2026-it... #ooni #opendata

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From Heuristics to Anonymous Credentials: Assessing OONI's Approach to Bad Measurements ooni.org/post/2026-fa... In our latest blog post, we share: • New heuristics & strategies for mitigating faulty measurements • An evaluation of the effectiveness of our new Anonymous Credential System 🐙✨ #ooni

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⚖️ Kenya's High Court ruled the government cannot arbitrarily block websites, striking down the Cybercrimes Act clause behind past shutdowns. The winning petition drew on OONI's evidence of Telegram blocking during KCSE exams. 🌐 📄 Our report: ooni.org/post/2025-ke...

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Although the impact estimated in our study is already substantial, our methodology is a lower bound, meaning that the true extent of the impact is likely higher than our reported figures. Learn more: ooni.org/post/2026-la... We thank OONI Probe users in #Spain for contributing measurements. 🙏

Collateral Damage of IP-Based Blocking During LALIGA Football Streaming in Spain: Evidence from OONI Measurements

This report documents the widespread collateral damage caused by IP-based blocking during LALIGA football match broadcasts in Spain, based on OONI data and DNS scans.

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‼️ We also detected TLS Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on Digi Mobil (AS57269), raising privacy and security concerns. OONI data from Digi Mobil in #Spain reveals that 7,334 unique IPs in 14 ASNs, hosting a total of 10,759 domain names, were affected by TLS MitM attacks. ooni.org/post/2026-la...

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At least 36 infrastructure and hosting providers were impacted by the IP-level blocking observed during LALIGA match broadcasts. OONI data from #Spain reveals the blocking of 7,441 unique IP addresses belonging to 36 organizations (e.g. Amazon, Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud). ooni.org/post/2026-la...

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🔴 New report: Collateral Damage of IP-Based Blocking During LALIGA Football Streaming in Spain: Evidence from OONI Measurements ooni.org/post/2026-la... Our latest report documents widespread collateral damage caused by IP blocks in #Spain during LALIGA football broadcasts over the past 6 months.

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When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident In this post, I dig into the leaked hijack intended to block Telegram in India — the latest intentional, but also accidental BGP mishap, in which a domestic block escapes, disrupting a service worldwide. www.kentik.com/blog/when-lo...

When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident

Yesterday’s leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental — a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom’s infam...

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As part of an effort to block Telegram, AS18101 of India hijacked BGP routes of the messaging service — with limited propagation due to route filtering. The red sliver in the dotted box represents the propagation of AS18101's hijack — not nothing but RPKI ROV helped to limit the impact.

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Beyond ISP-level blocks, our analysis of OONI data also identified cases where Women on Web’s website was inaccessible due to corporate firewall filtering in several countries. Learn more in our report: ooni.org/post/2026-wo... We thank OONI Probe users globally for contributing measurements. ❤️🐙

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Since February 2020, access to Women on Web has been blocked on multiple networks in #Spain. Although the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the partial unblocking of Women on Web in October 2022, OONI data indicates that block remains in place on several networks. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...

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OONI data shows that access to Women on Web has been blocked in #SouthKorea since January 2019. Unlike in other countries, where blocking is limited to Women on Web's main website, South Korea also blocks additional Women on Web domains created to circumvent censorship. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...

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