VLC media player website blocked on many ISPs in India

[mikrotik]

Chinese hackers are using VLC media player to launch malware attacks

The likely state-sponsored hacks began in 2021

www.androidpolice.com

 

[vizraks]

works for me. local isp

 

[Aakash Malhotra]

Blocked on airtel when using ipv4 + ipv6 . working on ipv4 when ipv6 is completely turned off.

 

[FujiwaraTofu]

Piggybacking on this, if a site is wrongly blacklisted by the DOT, what is the process to provide feedback and get it unblocked?

 

[naveen_reloaded]

blocked on BSNL (TN) , but i guess its because of airtel ip which bsnl uses sometimes

 

[Aarya]

no working on Airtel fiber

 

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[Lolita_Magnum]

I don't even know why you would use VLC in this day and age.

 

[a.c]

Is there a better alternative to VLC?

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

mpv.io

a free, open source, and cross-platform media player

mpv.io

It has a learning curve for some.

 

[Adithya]

This is blocked on BSNL right now. Even harder than porn and torrent sites which at least connects after a couple of reloads with dns over https.