Can't you just drop the ECH signals, no matter what site it is? Don't you then mostly disable sites you don't want people to see anyway? Maybe like, you can't download Chrome anymore, but I bet there would be a Russian fork suuuuper fast.
There is Yandex Browser [0] which is based on Chromium and exists since 2010. Its share in Russia is ~33% while Chrome has 42% of the market [1].
[0] https://browser.yandex.com/
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/russian-...
I guess my broader point is we might need something for regimes that are willing to instate varying degrees of isolation. Like, "so your Internet is controlled by authoritarians; now what?" Not to imply there definitively is a thing--that xkcd about the wrench is the dominant principle ofc.
It's bizarre that you don't consider that people first of all don't want to leave their country.
Exactly. You only said about difficulties leaving and being propagandized. As if people need to be propagandized to be attached to their own country.