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Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)

submitted 5 months ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[+] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

And they can easily say it’s Mozilla’s fault

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months 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.