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@DigitalJacobin
This seems reasonable, but I've never seen this line of thinking actually work — instead of standing your ground and sending the right message, you just start giving up your liberties bit by bit — Russia knows how to boil the frog slow very well.
This might buy some time, but they would still start forcing people off Firefox sooner or later.
Yandex' websites which are used by a lot of Russians are already giving you warning about Firefox no longer being supported…
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It's not just an imperfect solution — because there is no lesser evil: it would only postpone the inevitable, there simply are no good solutions 🤷
@DigitalJacobin
…and recommending you to install their own browser. Then there is this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca
Russian government organisations and state-owned enterprises can no longer legally renew their certificates — so they have just made their own CA. Obviously it enables, among other things, MITM attacks.
Sooner or later a lot of websites used by Russians will stop opening in Firefox — what would Mozilla do, comply with this one too and ship this CA with Firefox?
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