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Re:Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypt... by repolfx on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:51AM (#17540876)
It's the same thing. How do you think encrypted SNI will play out? The IP address is still available, so this only helps if the IP address you're connecting to hosts many domains, some of which are desirable to the censors to keep unblocked. In practice this means big CDNs and hosting services, of which there are only a few.

The reason they stopped domain fronting wasn't technical, it was business related. If these engineers can't win the internal political battles to keep domain fronting working, what makes them think they can win the exact same battle this time around?

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Re:Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypt... by stingraycharles on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:31AM (#17541105)
Blocking entire IP blocks is a much more crude weapon and definitely an improvement over the current situation. What you're presenting is a logical fallacy; just because the proposed solution doesn't tackle all the problems you want solved, doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
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