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The most unrealistic part is

> Youtube fails to load with a secure connection error.

YouTube still refuses to use anything more recent than RC4 encryption, so, if Cameron would ban all secure encryption, YouTube would probably still work.



"Your connection to www.youtube.com is encrypted with modern cryptography.

The connection uses TLS 1.2.

The connection is encrypted and authenticated using AES_128_GCM and uses ECDHE_ECDSA as the key exchange mechanism."


Check the actual connection for the video server, until a few months ago, that was still RC4. They only changed to 128-bit AES-GCM with ECDSA after Firefox started blocking RC4 encryption.


Thanks, I didn't know that. And honestly I'm not sure how to even check if this is the case--it's not possible through the browser UI, unless I'm missing something in the developer console?


So the YouTube web pages still wouldn't load, no?


well, depends. 2 months ago, the pages wouldn’t have loaded, the videos (if you download them through a third-party tool) would have.

Now, the videos wouldn’t load either.




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