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.
11 Comments
wischi@programming.dev · 26 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
Not sure why, if true. I doubt Russia is making up a large chunk of their economic funding.
themurphy@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
Russia don't get anyone it's always suicide by falling off a windows
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Or off a boat, or suicide by radioactive materials, ya know, the usual ways
HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 2y
Forgot also about lot of suicide by shot behind the head
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2y
They're the Mozilla CEO, I image they'd fall off a linux.
ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
hendu@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
From the article:
ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
hendu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Yes, you're right about that.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Weak
wischi@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y
The extensions should be back online: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-censorship-circumvention-extension-has-disappeared-from-the-russian-version-of-mozilla-addons/130914/38