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by lomnakkus 2880 days ago
I think you're missing the point that this is a type of ratchet in getting the intermediates to stop doing arbitrary traffic shaping/queueing/etc. (Ideally it would end up being a ratchet for net neutrality, but let's see...)

A lot of Chrome traffic is already QUIC-based[1], and I think people will be pissed off it their experience is suddenly degraded because some asshole ISP decided to wholesale drop UDP over TCP.

Regardless of any of that -- the only way forward for privacy is end-to-end encryption and QUIC helps achieve that, up to "secret key availability"[2].

[1] I think Firefox is also experimenting with it?

[2] That is, any entity serving you a page must have the right secret keys. This is basically the case with SSL-only web sites already.