Developers will no longer be able to use Google to bypass locks. The company ceased to support the domain-fronting technique, which allowed the use of Google's network as a disguise. The first changes were noticed by the developers Tor.

Changes affect all Google services and already threaten technical problems for some services that used front-end to bypass state locks. Among them are Signal, GreatFire. org, and Psiphon's VPN services.

A representative of Google in a conversation with The Verge said that the company had long planned to update the network.

Google has never supported front-end as a separate opportunity, but so far it has worked because of the features of our software. We are constantly improving our network and disabling the front-end - part of the planned changes.

We do not have any plans to implement this option, - said the representative of Google.

Fronting allowed the developer to use Google as a proxy, redirecting the traffic of their services through the domain of the search engine. This helped to combat state censorship in some countries, because of which a whole resource could be blocked. However, while some service used front-end, all the data passed through Google. com, and encryption did not give regulators the ability to figure out anything else.