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I imagine they would offer it as an option in your Google account settings, similar to GMail before it was made default. That will certainly make censorship MUC
by dublinclontarf 16y ago
I imagine they would offer it as an option in your Google account settings, similar to GMail before it was made default. That will certainly make censorship MUCH more difficult, and if they include Google cache in this (which was used for a time to get around the Great FireWall of China) we would have something of a winning combination.
On the other hand, the Chinese government might just ban Google search outright for such a move, although they haven't done this for GMail yet.
- emily37 16y agoMore difficult but still far from impossible... All China needs is a Chinese CA to issue them a certificate for Google and then they can do a nice MITM without the user seeing even a single warning.
- avar 16y agoThere have been totally unproved speculations that they've been doing that. But if they did it on a scale like that their CA would be revoked from all default browser installations. They could still force the issue and mandate that their CA be patched back in on all computers sold in mainland China. Either case seems very unlikely, just outright blocking things they don't like seems to be their current approach. I don't see why they'd change that for Google.