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.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They will comply
The rest of us won't be far behind

They stand to lose a good portion of their business if they can't service France. They'll comply.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

The rest of us

Speak for yourself.

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Malicious compliance could be of help? For example, blocking the streaming sites for their endpoints that are local to France, if any?

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This will just create an underground DNS system

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Not efective against DPI censorship.

[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Already have an alternative using pihole using unbound

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

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?