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Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship

theintercept.com Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request

At Russia’s request, Firefox web browser maker Mozilla blocked add-ons that are designed to circumvent internet censorship.

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WTF on the part of Mozilla
- I suspect this was a "do it or we'll categorize Mozilla products as malicious software" situations. But some transparency from Mozilla would be nice.
  
  They should tell Russia to eat a dick. Remember when Google did that to China? I thought it was very cool of them
  
  Unfortunately, the time when they seemed cool is long gone
  
  @iopq @neuracnu Since when Google becomes your moral guidance? The company literally provided AI assistance to the genocide of tens of thousands of people, it spies on everyone on this planet, and willingly offer those info to the US government at request.
  
  Let them. If everyone refuses to comply the authoritarian control of the Russian government over its people will crumble a little.
  
  If everyone
  
  I think, that's the problem...
  
  Well at the very least they could of just said no. I don't think they have a Russian office and if they did they probably should get out of Russia
  
  I would expect Russia to just ban downloads of Firefox, if they said no. Like, why would Russia not do that? Chrome, Edge, Safari etc. will presumably bend over backwards quite readily. As in, it would be a disservice to the Russian people to get Firefox banned over this.
  
  The Russian government is a disservice to the Russian people. However, I do not think Mozilla should go along with the collapse of any form of democracy.
  
  Russia is either exactly like China at this point or it will be like China soon. US companies shouldn't deal with authoritarian governments. I also dislike that Cisco is a big Chinese government contractor.
- because it's either do that or block all of firefox from existing in russia.
  
  besides it's not really a big deal since firefox can install extensions outside of mozilla add-ons. the intercept is just sensational trash.
  
  Instagram is banned and blocked in Russia but it hasn't stopped the people from using it at all.
  
  I disagree with that.
  
  Surely there is someone, somewhere who is unable or deterred from using Instagram in Russia because of the ban.
  
  firefox can install extensions outside of mozilla add-ons
  
  release builds cannot and all extensions not signed by Mozilla will refuse to install
  
  The addons on the store are signed and you can install them from an xpi file in regular Firefox.
  
  Try it.
  
  On mobile that may be the case, but on desktop you can definitely install extensions not signed by Mozilla
  
  only until restart.
  to load unsigned extensions persistently, you must use nightly or developer edition and enable a hidden config flag.
  
  Without a nightly or dev version I'm running bypass paywalls clean from github, persistently on the latest Firefox desktop release. I do not believe it's signed by Mozilla, but I could be wrong
  
  Only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that I installed it before this requirement was made and my install is grandfathered in

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