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Now that this has open the floodgates, where many users would be using a VPN like service shipped by default on the worlds most popular browser, one of two bad
by supriyo-biswas 3y ago
Now that this has open the floodgates, where many users would be using a VPN like service shipped by default on the worlds most popular browser, one of two bad things will happen:
1. Cloudflare (which is proxying traffic for this feature) is unable to maintain its contact neutral status as governments force it to implement censorship to comply with local laws.
2. Governments force browsers to ship a block list of domains, with tampering the browser binaries being prevented by attestation (which has already been proposed in France.)
- lxgr 3y agoWouldn't governments inclined to do 1. already exert the same pressure on local ISPs? The roles of the "proxy exit node" network and regional ISPs seem very similar, at least. And couldn't 2. happen completely independently of this effort? Or is your point that this type of proxying would circumvent existing ISP-level blocking without 1.?