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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
submitted 5 months ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] wischi@programming.dev 26 points 5 months ago

According to their forum the extensions are back online in Russia: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-censorship-circumvention-extension-has-disappeared-from-the-russian-version-of-mozilla-addons/130914/38

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why, if true. I doubt Russia is making up a large chunk of their economic funding.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes CEOs just get paranoid. You can either flip a switch an remove an app, or risk getting personally targeted by Russia.

Russia won't get to you, most likely, but it's the paranoia that gets you.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Russia don't get anyone it's always suicide by falling off a windows

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or off a boat, or suicide by radioactive materials, ya know, the usual ways

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 1 points 5 months ago

Forgot also about lot of suicide by shot behind the head

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

They're the Mozilla CEO, I image they'd fall off a linux.

[–] ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are not blocked but are removed from the store, at least as far as I can read in my phone, without a login that the intercept forces on anyone who wants to read it.

[–] hendu@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From the article:

The Intercept verified that all four add-ons are blocked in Russia. If the webpage for the add-on is accessed from a Russian IP address, the Mozilla add-on page displays a message: “The page you tried to access is not available in your region.” If the add-on is accessed with an IP address outside of Russia, the add-on page loads successfully.

[–] ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It might be pedantic, but the difference I was trying to highlight was that it’s not blocked by the browser. It is (or was) blocked from being downloaded from the app marketplace.

The reason this is important is that the extension can still be installed, if you were to download it from elsewhere.

[–] hendu@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, you're right about that.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Weak