• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    25 days 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.

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      25 days 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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        25 days ago

        If Mozilla gets blocked, people would just install some other browser (probably, something from Russia). I do not see how this helps anyone but the government itself. And departure of hundreds (if not thousands) of western companies did nothing to the Russian government, some problems with a browser with almost non-existent userbase would have the same effect. It should be quite clear by now that such tactic simply does not work.