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by o-__-o 2477 days ago
Couldn’t your isp watch traffic to pull out SNI information?
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the next step is eSNI and judging by the DoH rollout that will also be a new level of controversy advocating against it
What are the arguments against eSNI?
> What are the arguments against eSNI?

Institutions providing internet access, but with an obligation or operational requirement to block certain kinds of content (e.g. insufficient network capacity on the free WiFi at a hospital to allow streaming video for all visitors) would not be able to do it at all.

Privacy proponents seem to forget that there are sometimes reasonable reasons to allow traffic to be blocked, and instead of looking for a real solution, are imposing ridiculous "solutions" on all Firefox users.