As of now **The Captcha Monitoring** project tracks how often CDN (for ex. Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon Cloudfront, etc.) fronted webpages return CAPTCHAs to Tor clients, the details of which could be found in [here](https://gitlab.torproject.org/woswos/CAPTCHA-Monitor/-/wikis/GSoC-2020-Home).
This is a wiki to the GSoC 2021 branch which will be tracking the The Alexa Top 500 Websites, to give a detailed perspective of websites mentioned above, blocking or returning Captchas to Tor clients. The project aims to do so by fetching webpages over a period of time from both Tor clients/browsers and the non-tor browsers thereby comparing the results. The results will be then collected and provide answers to the different metrics, and also form an understanding to how websites are blocking Tor and affect the Internet freedom.
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One could find in more details [here](https://hackhard.github.io/my-blog//My-Approach-29-03).
## Nearby Goals :
- [ ] Working of the Captcha Monitor if the website blocks Tor fully _(Response errors or difference in status codes)._
- [ ] Working of the Captcha Monitor if the website returns Captcha .
- [ ] Working of the Captcha Monitor if the website redirects to another error page *(without blocking it).*
- [ ] Working of the Captcha Monitor if the website isn't blocked, and works fine.
- [ ] Add websites with limited functionalities.
## Nearby Goals and Roadmap:
- [ ] Check with few handful websites:
- [ ] Check if the website blocks Tor fully _(Response errors or difference in status codes)_.
- [ ] Add script to continue checking or return `Blocking`.
- [ ] Check if the website returns `Captcha` .
- [ ] Add script to continue checking or return `Captcha`.
- [ ] Check if the website redirects to another error page (without blocking it).
- [ ] Add script to continue checking or return `Error page`.
- [ ] Check if the website allows anonymous visiting, and works fine.
- [ ] Run tests.
- [ ] Check if the website allows limited functionalities.
- [ ] Repeat above with a random website
- [ ] If the above works good run for more number of websites
- [ ] Else, checking for the problem.
## Posts :
Meanwhile I'll be updating a blog which will further provide more details to the project, from the difficulties faced to the different approaches being taken to help with the understanding, documentation and easy contribution.
If you have any queries, feedback regarding the project you could reach me on the tor channels: (the #tor-dev or #tor-project channels on [OFTC](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=tor) IRC). My IRC handle being **\_ranchak\_**
Also you can also reach me out at: <abishekhmjee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Also you can also reach me out at: <abishekhmjee(at)gmail(dot)com>
