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Re:After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Dro... by egberts1 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @04:59AM (#43480179)
Open source, in search of a viable business model.

Classic, since days of MIT license lore.

Looks like universities and research labs (corporate, private, and government, wait, scratch that last one a bit) will be picking up the tiny slacks, ... again.

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Re:After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Dro... by eesmith on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:15AM (#43480571)
It seems more like "privacy, in search of a viable business model" (or possibly "security").

If Let's Encrypt starts charging for a certificate, how many web sites will switch to http-only?

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Re:After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Dro... by egberts1 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @08:16AM (#43481346)
Yeah.

While not privacy-related, that http-only would break my own model of banning all things Chrome via a certain combo of TLSv3.1 crypto, regardless of UserAgent string.

https://egbert.net

As a working example.

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