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The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too easy to bypass that with a VPN, proxy, or alternative DNS.

[–] Zehzin 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But like, can't they just download the non France version of Firefox? Isn't it open source? People can just build their own, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes but 90% of the people using Firefox won't bother or notice. I already struggle trying to make all my relatives switch to Firefox, I can't imagine getting them to download a specific version or build it themselves...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But the same applies for the other workarounds mentioned doesn't it?