Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia
Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia
discourse.mozilla.org The censorship circumvention extension has disappeared from the Russian version of Mozilla Addons
I am one of the developers of the Censor Tracker add-on, which is listed on Mozilla’s add-on repository. We recently noticed that our add-on is now unavailable in Russia, despite being developed specifically to circumvent censorship in Russia. We have not changed any visibility settings, nor have w...
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Roskomnadzor probably has something to do with it.
Tbf, it's probably to prevent Russia from carpet banning Mozilla services and products. They might just do that, create a new foundation called "MegaLizard", with the browser "Greyhound"...
That being said, unlike with Chrome, installing third party extensions for Firefox outside the extension store is fairly uncomplicated.