• @ByteJunk
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    1312 days ago

    Nah. Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

    This isn’t like the great firewall of chine where you want to prevent absolutely all traffic. If you make it inconvenient to use, because CSS breaks or a js library doesn’t load or images breaslk, its already a huge step into pushing it out of the market.

    Enterprise market would be much harder, a loooot of EU companies rely on Google’s services, platforms and apps, and migrating away would take a lot of time and money.

    • @DreamlandLividity
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      Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

      Filter it based on what? Between ESNI and DNS over HTTPS, it shouldn’t be possible to know, which domain the traffic belongs to. Am I missing something?

      Edit: Ah, I guess DNS over HTTPS isn’t enabled by default yet.

      • BritishJ
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        11 days ago

        Just filter out googles ASN and ip’s. And stop peering with them on BGP. Simples

        Im not supporting this by the way. I think the internet should be free and open, without governments blocking what I can access.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 days ago

          The onpy free internet will be tor. The normie internet has been too naughty and spawned shitty giants who think they can treat us like cattle. Break the critical mass and network effects, kill the blitzscale cheaters trying to enslave us. We do not need them, they need us.

      • @iopq
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        19 days ago

        China blocks ESNI and DoH. You have to find a DoH server that is not well known and have to fake the host name.

        But if you actually do that, lol

        • @DreamlandLividity
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          19 days ago

          without either sparking a cyberwar or building something like the great firewall of China

      • @ByteJunk
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        011 days ago

        IP block it. Boom there goes eSNI and DNS.

        Sure, it’s crude, but again: it doesn’t have to perfect, it just needs to create havoc with Google services to push away a regular user, who has no idea what DNS even is.

        A better approach though is to fine Google, with a % of revenue increasing until compliance. They’ll very quickly be incentivised to comply or shutdown.

        • @DreamlandLividity
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          211 days ago

          The whole argument was about blocking search only, considering the damages suddenly completely blocking google would do. Yes, you can block google data centers completely, but dude, would that cause chaos.

          A better approach though is to fine Google,

          I said that multiple times already.

                • @DreamlandLividity
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                  010 days ago

                  That is like saying standing up to authoritarianism is extremely necessary, while proposing to drop nukes on Russia. There are 100 better ways to do it.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    010 days ago

                    Yes you’re right, blocking a single corporation is totally similar to dropping a nuclear weapon on a civilian site, you’ve shown me the error of my ways.

                    Holy fucking hyperbole, Batman!