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cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/57607

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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[–] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browser based blocking seems very out of touch and anything short of GFW as in China won't be very effective at actually achieving any blocking. Also enforcement client side will be impossible to control.

So not only is the law bad, but it will only make life more difficult for legitimate persons and organizations building browsers.

[–] spader312@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wondering if mozzilla can get around this by enabling some start up arg to disable it lol