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We have won, but at what cost…

Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.

This graph is terrible for proving your point. Which browsers are … ?

• building a new engine and/or rewritting old code; instead of just being another fork/reskin of browser xyz;
• still active, with expectations of continuing for the next few years; with funding from people and companies;
• doing rapid advances towards being a good enough replacement of Chrome, Firefox, Safari;

This graphs says nothing of that.

edit: autocorrect

Maybe the review is wrong. Maybe we should wait a year and see how the situation is again. /s

The article seems to focus on the fact that it’s hard to do “content moderation well at scale”. Wouldn’t such legislation discourage creation and growth of giant social media “platforms”, giving more space for more local, smaller communities?

Although the interfaces seem similar, Qwant seems to have more trackers and shows links for their other products and extension. Murena has a cleaner interface that focuses on the search. However, you have to trust more people in the latter.