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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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Service providers in many countries are required by law to do this through DNS for years. The UK, Italy, Germany and Brazil are just a few that I've had personal experience with. Moving this to the browser really isn't necessary since there will always be easy ways around these types of blocks.
"The internet treats censorship as a fault and reroutes around it."
yeah but those usaully are bypassable if you have vpns or custom dns or whatnot. even for neewbies that just use vpn client sw.
if they force it at browser level, in theoty, that would even override vpn / custom dns unless you have a modifyied browser that removes the block or otherwise doesnot comply. which most novices wont know how ot do.
another good reason to use ff / foss browsers if you aren'y already. kinbda hope they do it, just to drive up marketshare of foss bowsers lol
I don't disagree at all, especially about the need for FOSS browsers.
Finland also had this for years but the ISPs started quietly to stop the blocking at some point. And you could bypass the blocking by using another DNS server anyways.