Cydia Has Been Blocked in the UK, Ireland, and China!

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Posted February 13, 2011 at 1:54pm by iClarified

Cydia has been blocked in the UK and Ireland by 3 and in China by China Unicom, according to tweets from developer Steve Troughton-Smith.

Wow, 3 Ireland (iPhone carrier) has blocked Cydia's servers from their network: http://go.ww.com/cydia/ /via @0xMW

@stroughtonsmith @0xMW #China unicom has been blocked #Cydia's server too

@stroughtonsmith 3 UK have blocked Cydia too. Not only pre-pay but pay monthly aswell.

This a pretty disturbing series of events and we'll keep you updated as more develops. Note that Cydia is being blocked over 3G. You will still be able to access it via Wi-Fi.

Cydia Has Been Blocked in the UK, Ireland, and China!

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AP - February 14, 2011 at 8:56am

Seems to be working fine now!

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Gangsta - February 14, 2011 at 8:11am

Why the fack would they do that, it only costs customers, that's all what those companies care about..

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3er - February 13, 2011 at 9:39pm

Just had a total outage on 3 in my area (in UK), after which Cydia works fine on iPhone 4 and iPad (different SIMs, BTW). Almost certainly a decision by the filtering company that didn't match 3's desires for their 'adult' block and so has now been undone.

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Martin - February 13, 2011 at 7:51pm

I can confirm that. Tried on 3 different iPhones on Thursday and cydia didn't work. But, I called three support and ask them to remove any restrictions on my 3 number and they did :-) so, I'm ok again. I can even access some other websites which I wasn't allowed to visit before :-)

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Kiniu - February 13, 2011 at 5:51pm

this is some kind of .... cydia is working fine in irlande lats....

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justabrake - February 13, 2011 at 4:59pm

This is bad news wow

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@nibsuk - February 13, 2011 at 2:45pm

You can call 3 UK on 333 from your mobile and ask them to remove the adult content filter which they should do at no charge. I was told they were having a problem with the filter provided by the Internet Watch Foundation by a member of 3 staff.

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@nibsuk - February 13, 2011 at 5:03pm

I can now confirm that I can access Cydia on 3G after calling 3 as above. They seem to have also added 2GB to my all-you-can-eat data plan too :) Thanks to @prenvo for letting me know about this

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Thatcher - February 13, 2011 at 2:39pm

3 is working fine on my iPad in England. Just checked both over 3G

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