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> This removes the last piece of information that can be used to block HTTPS traffic based on the site your visiting without being a party to the exchange.

And that will cause blocks by IP. It's not like authorities in those countries care that much if a user can't access a not-blocked site, as long as they can't access a blocked one.

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The point of efforts like this is exactly to make selective blocking infeasible. This will force the bad guys to choose between blocking nothing and blocking everything, and with the exception of North Korea, most aren't willing to do the latter.

Nope, the bad guys don't care that much.

Who are you talking about?

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