The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla’s Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

    • 🌴 𝓣𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽@community.destinovate.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Never heard of that one, I was telling somebody the other day about IceWeasel. So there definitely are FF clones. Or I guess you could just compile Firefox yourself and remove the denylist portion of the code. Would be extra funny if they compiled a version specific for France (because why block sites for everybody else?) and put it next to the regular one on their website with text that said oh BTW if you’re in France definitely only download this version, wink wink.

      • TechieDamien@lemmy.ml
        8·
        1 year ago

        Meanwhile Linux distros will just package the non-blocklist version and French citizens will end up bypassing the restriction by accident!