India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order

India's government issued a blocking order on February 24 under Section 69A of the IT Act, disrupting access to Supabase — a popular open-source Firebase alternative — across major ISPs including JioFiber, Airtel, and ACT Fibernet. No reason was publicly given for the block. India is Supabase's fourth-largest market, accounting for ~9% of global traffic, with visits up 179% year-over-year. Developers in India reported inability to access the platform for both development and production use. Supabase suggested DNS changes or VPNs as workarounds but acknowledged these aren't practical for end users. The incident echoes India's 2014 temporary block of GitHub and raises broader concerns about the country's opaque website-blocking regime and its impact on the developer ecosystem.