It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is that China has its own edition of Minecraft which cannot connect to servers of the mainstream edition.<p><a href="https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China" rel="nofollow">https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China</a>
Basically they’ll be using a massive multiplayer online game as a gateway (proxy, almost) for censored content.<p>Whether this is a genuine avenue, an in-your-face hack, and/or whether it will lead to illiberal regimes banning access to aforementioned MMOs remains to be seen.<p>It’s definitely clever, though.
I think rather than using an online game as a gateway, using something like GitHub would be more censorship proof. Even if it's just text links only and larger content is hosted elsewhere the government would severely impact software companies by blocking GitHub.
This website is totally broken (renders a blank white page) with cookies disabled.<p><a href="https://sneak.berlin/20200211/your-website/" rel="nofollow">https://sneak.berlin/20200211/your-website/</a><p>Due to the spec for localStorage requiring that it throw an exception when access is denied (such as when cookies are off), many pages entirely fail to render when they assume that touching window.localStorage won't throw.
> In many countries<p>this website would not even open because it weights 20 MB and takes 5 seconds to oppen on a 100 MBit connection. And it doesn't work with JS disabled.<p>It's a self-glorifying CV project for a designer. Not a usable or useful site.<p>I can't even say what the project is, I'm so distracted by scroll hijacking and endless animations.
I observe that 'the Film' on their website doesn't work in Chrome, but it does in Firefox. (I'm on macOS)<p>It may not mean anything bad on Google, it may not be their fault, but I wanted to just put that observation on the record.
I just got stuck on a "Loading" page with an animation of little squares falling down to form a larger square.<p>What exactly is this supposed to be?
I think this is an interesting idea, though I question its efficacy.<p>Also, why does every new website have to have a page weight of 'all written works before 1900'?