• jormaig@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I’m baffled in how the EU is so much for consumer rights and punishing Apple, Google and Microsoft but then they completely ignore the issue of choosing your own router in your own home network.

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      1 year ago

      In germany therr is legislation forcing them to allow you to use your own router. This is just a sneaky attempt to circumvent this law via the EU.

      This will probably end up backfiring as germany is the EU. They will just slap the same law on all EU countries.

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        This will probably end up backfiring as germany is the EU. They will just slap the same law on all EU countries.

        Thank god, that this is not true, because EU safed us Germans so many time from our conservative governments.

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      1 year ago

      This is definitely not an EU wide issue. I’ve lived in a couple of different countries and always had the option of using my own hardware with static IPv4 and recently also static IPv6 addresses and with no port restrictions

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        1 year ago

        I live in Spain and my ISP lets me do that but some ISPs don’t. So, I think protecting your right to your device of choice in your own home network would be a good idea. After all, I’ve caught the ISP trying to eavesdrop on my network.