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Are we reading the same comment? The one I'm reading only mentions having a "radio button selector" with no reference to making it geo specific. Regardless, even if it were geo specific, then what? I guess it's fine for american users, but what about all the EU users that might be getting MITMed?

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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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