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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

WTF on the part of Mozilla

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I suspect this was a "do it or we'll categorize Mozilla products as malicious software" situations. But some transparency from Mozilla would be nice.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They should tell Russia to eat a dick. Remember when Google did that to China? I thought it was very cool of them

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately, the time when they seemed cool is long gone

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Let them. If everyone refuses to comply the authoritarian control of the Russian government over its people will crumble a little.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If everyone

I think, that's the problem...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well at the very least they could of just said no. I don't think they have a Russian office and if they did they probably should get out of Russia

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would expect Russia to just ban downloads of Firefox, if they said no. Like, why would Russia not do that? Chrome, Edge, Safari etc. will presumably bend over backwards quite readily. As in, it would be a disservice to the Russian people to get Firefox banned over this.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

The Russian government is a disservice to the Russian people. However, I do not think Mozilla should go along with the collapse of any form of democracy.

Russia is either exactly like China at this point or it will be like China soon. US companies shouldn't deal with authoritarian governments. I also dislike that Cisco is a big Chinese government contractor.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

because it's either do that or block all of firefox from existing in russia.

besides it's not really a big deal since firefox can install extensions outside of mozilla add-ons. the intercept is just sensational trash.

[–] Rose@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I disagree with that.

Surely there is someone, somewhere who is unable or deterred from using Instagram in Russia because of the ban.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

firefox can install extensions outside of mozilla add-ons

release builds cannot and all extensions not signed by Mozilla will refuse to install

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

The addons on the store are signed and you can install them from an xpi file in regular Firefox.

Try it.

[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On mobile that may be the case, but on desktop you can definitely install extensions not signed by Mozilla

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

only until restart.
to load unsigned extensions persistently, you must use nightly or developer edition and enable a hidden config flag.

[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Without a nightly or dev version I'm running bypass paywalls clean from github, persistently on the latest Firefox desktop release. I do not believe it's signed by Mozilla, but I could be wrong

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that I installed it before this requirement was made and my install is grandfathered in