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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] -3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It would work for 95% of browser users, who will not know that they can use a fork of Firefox because they have no idea what that means.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Right, these type of solutions are akin to changing your SSH port number. It works >90% of the time, but anyone skilled or determined can easily bypass these restrictions for given targets.

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