“They just sort of throw out the kitchen sink of techniques,” said Nathan Freitas, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a developer of a mobile Tor-based web browser for Android phones. “So China basically gave up trying to block all of these techniques and said, ‘Let’s just block the app, and Apple will do it for us.'”

Source: App developers try to stay 1 step ahead of government censors in ‘intelligence game’ – Technology & Science – CBC News