OONI Explorer
OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world.
2012
https://blog.whatsapp.com/connecting-to-whatsapp-by-proxy
WhatsApp Proxy feature
What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.
Active
Since 2023
Menlo Park, California, United States
Related projects
Parent organization: WhatsApp
- Project type
- Feature
- Country
- United States of America 🇺🇸
- Founded
- 2023
- Language(s)
- English
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Circumvention tech, Civic features
- Tags
- Added
- 2023-01-06
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:44:32.000Z
Additional details
- Platforms
- WeChat (Weixin), WhatsApp
- Number of integrations
- 0
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