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OK, here is a radical suggestion: The list should only include browsers that meet certain security and privacy criteria in the default install. The EU law sho

• zrn900 3y ago
  The recent Eu laws already turned into vehicles for using against the US in the low key Eu-US trade war that has been ongoing for a decade. Moreover, there came to being a crop of Euparl politicians who basically make their careers on these issues as these issues are domestically safe since no major political segment can object to things like privacy etc. But the machine must keep going, so they keep creating outrage and then using it to keep their politics going and push laws for that. The original pure, simple intents to protect the free internet and the user have transformed into an increasing cascade of legal complexity due to something no different than how EPDs have to keep adding features to apps in order to justify their salary. Also there is a very ugly thing in the making: It looks like certain major European software interests are using this dynamic to attempt to build regulatory moats to keep domestic and foreign competition away by making things more difficult. An even nastier one was how Ashton Kutcher et al, literal foreigners, have come to push a law to spy on online chats 'against pedophilia' to be able to sell the spying software that their foundation produces, by using such politicians. All in all, despite coming from the pirate party culture of the early Internet, I have started to be wary of this dynamic and the legal quagmire it started to produce...