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…