• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    How would France even implement a way to restrict what version of software you download from the internet? IP based restrictions are easily defeated and this doesn’t account for 3rd party sites based anywhere in the world except France.

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      1 year ago

      How would you get a browser without a browser though? Memorize the ff download link and wget it perhaps?

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        1 year ago

        That’s a good question but I imagine it would be like when you have a fresh windows install and use Edge to download Firefox or Chrome but instead you’d get them from an unofficial source or with a VPN connected to a different country.

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          1 year ago

          But you wouldnt have edge either. No web browser would be on your OS at all

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            1 year ago

            Well in the case of Windows, the browser is integral to the OS so they couldn’t/wouldn’t ship it without one. Even if that is a restricted browser, there should be a not too difficult way to use it to download an unrestricted browser.

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        1 year ago

        It’s as though this proposal was dreamed up by someone who has never installed anything on their PC.

        Like are they going to block entire repositories? When you apt get install x from within france to they expect repositories to magically give you the french version?