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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    Unfortunately, this is gonna happen and worse. We lost the fight for the internet in 2006, and we’re watching it die. No joke, I started using yandex browser and search since Google ruined theirs, and it is close to perfect. Waterfox is my backup.

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      I wouldn’t recommend using Yandex, due to it’s connections with the Russian government. You should check out privacyguides.org they have a lot of cool info about privacy respecting tools. However I also don’t recommend anything Brave. The company was founded by a homophobe who was previously in charge of Mozilla, but left, because of community pressure.

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        What can the Russian government realistically do to me?

        My government is the one that can ruin my life.

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          Avoid all governmemt infused apps and services. Weather it is foreign or domestic.

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      1 year ago

      Why do right wingers hate freedom so much?

      What? Am I on crazy pills? This has nothing to do with polticial leaning. Its man VS big gov.

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          A globalist leaning. Macron if I recall comes from big money in the financial world. The do not have a leaning poltically, they are amoral, dark triad.

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    If worse comes to worst, someone can fork Firefox and remove the in-browser censorship. That is the beauty of FOSS.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately the 99% that don’t know about less popular options will still be affected

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        True, however it will require some grassroots movement/discussion to make it known.