1. I landed this fix because there was a policy that did not work properly. We could instead document that the URLBlocklist policy works for every scheme but one, or we could fix it. Fixing it makes more sense.
2. This policy only can be set on managed machines.
3. This policy, in isolation, is trivially circumvented. Managed environments block many things, including many of the proposed circumventions here.
4. I've built one of the world's most popular tools for viewing and modifying web traffic. The narrative that this feature has broad implications for anything is absurd.
1. I landed this fix because there was a policy that did not work properly. We could instead document that the URLBlocklist policy works for every scheme but one, or we could fix it. Fixing it makes more sense.
2. This policy only can be set on managed machines.
3. This policy, in isolation, is trivially circumvented. Managed environments block many things, including many of the proposed circumventions here.
4. I've built one of the world's most popular tools for viewing and modifying web traffic. The narrative that this feature has broad implications for anything is absurd.