Fuera de Juego: IP blocks

When there is a match on, Spanish carriers stop routing certain internet addresses for a few hours. The order goes after unlicensed broadcasts, but it does not aim at particular websites: it aims at numeric addresses. And since a single address can serve thousands of sites at once, everything behind it goes down with it. Fuera de Juego tells you whether that is happening on your carrier right now, and whether it reaches the sites you care about. THE PULSE, AT A GLANCE Open the app and you have the verdict in two seconds: blocking, not blocking, or can't tell. Below it, the other four carriers — which reveals something that surprises everyone: the cut is not the same for all of them. One has been seen with more than five hundred addresses down while another blocked none, in the same minute. CHECK A SITE Type a domain, or paste a link as it is, and the app tells you whether it is affected and on which carriers. It also separates a full block from a partial one — and the partial case is the one that produces the symptom nobody knows how to diagnose: a site that loads some times and not others. YOUR SITES, WATCHED Save the sites that matter to you — your own, your company's, the shop you buy from — and you will know right away whether today's cut reaches them. WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE The history turns thousands of loose records into something readable: which days there was a cut, from what time to what time, and how many addresses went down at once. WIDGET The signal on your home screen and lock screen, for your carrier. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT DOESN'T KNOW If the app can't get data, it says so. It never assumes there is no blocking just because it couldn't check, and it always shows how old the data you are looking at is. NO ACCOUNTS, NO TRACKING No sign-up, no analytics, no personal data collected. The sites you save stay on your iPhone. WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM This app does not measure the blocking: the ¿Hay ahora fútbol? project does, probing the carriers continuously and publishing the result openly. All this app does is read that data and lay it out for a phone. The measuring is entirely their work, and the app credits it with a link on its information screen.