Sucks if you’re in France. For the rest of us it should be interesting to see which of these VPN providers choose to comply by geo-blocking France, which choose to cut any ties they have with France and otherwise ignore the order, and which to abandon their mission and become agents of censorship on behalf of France.
Likely. What I said has more to do with “we’re next.” If this is successful in France, other countries will follow suit or at the very least get pressure from the IP lobby to follow.
They stand to lose a lot more business if they bend the knee. What person is going to use a hamstringed VPN? It almost completely misses the point of having one.
Sucks if you’re in France. For the rest of us it should be interesting to see which of these VPN providers choose to comply by geo-blocking France, which choose to cut any ties they have with France and otherwise ignore the order, and which to abandon their mission and become agents of censorship on behalf of France.
They stand to lose a good portion of their business if they can’t service France. They’ll comply.
Malicious compliance could be of help? For example, blocking the streaming sites for their endpoints that are local to France, if any?
Likely. What I said has more to do with “we’re next.” If this is successful in France, other countries will follow suit or at the very least get pressure from the IP lobby to follow.
This will just create an underground DNS system
Not efective against DPI censorship.
Already have an alternative using pihole using unbound
Speak for yourself.
They stand to lose a lot more business if they bend the knee. What person is going to use a hamstringed VPN? It almost completely misses the point of having one.
I am sorry your VPN provider sucks so much that you are sure of something that hasn’t even happened yet. Time to switch to a good one, am I right?