[tor-bugs] #25137 [- Select a component]: Tor blocked in UAE

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#25137: Tor blocked in UAE
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     Reporter:  mwolfe                |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  defect                |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                |  Milestone:
    Component:  - Select a component  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                |   Keywords:
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 On 1 Jan, I was unable to connect to a site I often use with Tor. It got
 75% loaded and stopped. After 2 hours, I figured out the UAE had started
 blocking Tor, and switched to obfs4. This worked until today at midnight.
 So I switched to meek, which worked. I connected to one yahoo mail
 account, finished, closed Tor before switching to my other yahoo mail
 account (I don't want yahoo to know they're both me). Tor only loaded 25%.
 It downloaded the network consensus, but could not load the network
 consensus. I closed Tor and tried meek-Amazon and meek-azure, but always,
 Tor could not load the network consensus. So I switched to Openvpn, and
 was able to use Tor in normal mode, without a bridge. (Of course, I had to
 reset my computer clock to match the VPN address). Does anyone know how
 the UAE is blocking Tor so that it cannot load the network status, and
 what I can do about it (in case they figure out how to block Openvpn).

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