• Telorand@reddthat.com
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      5 months ago

      Read the article. They didn’t “get into” anything. They got told to take five add-ons down or face the wrath of a regime with a close relationship with defenestration, which they did only for Russians.

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    5 months ago

    It’s either get the addons removed, or get the whole addon store itself blocked. You can just install the extension from an xpi file.

    Mozilla really isn’t in a position to fight the Russian government over this and win.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      5 months ago

      Yes they kind of are. I’m not sure how many Firefox users there are in Russia but some how I think there enough that it would be yet another bad look for the authoritarian government.

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        5 months ago

        I checked, and according to Statcounter it’s at 3.3%. So if Mozilla did go hardball, it’d affect an insignificant amount of people.

        Realistically though, I don’t follow world politics much but I assume that “blocking firefox” probably wouldn’t be the worst optics they’ve had in the past few years.