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If the law mandates a MITM capability, and users in the EU don’t consider it important enough to oppose said law, there isn’t really a choice and the region scoped certs may be the only choice moving forward.


There will be a fork of Firefox in that case.


Right? I came here to look for potential remedies when this goes through. Forking browsers sounds like a good solution. Or am I missing something?


Outside of the EU, browser vendors will continue to ship browsers without eIDAS CAs, so just VPN into a non-EU country to download your browsers.

But you'll probably have to keep an EU version on hand in order to access EU gov sites, EU banks, and likely EU businesses if/when the EU government decides to force businesses to use eIDAS certs for their sites.




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