Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request
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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
Not sure why, if true. I doubt Russia is making up a large chunk of their economic funding.
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.
Russia don't get anyone it's always suicide by falling off a windows
Or off a boat, or suicide by radioactive materials, ya know, the usual ways
Forgot also about lot of suicide by shot behind the head
They're the Mozilla CEO, I image they'd fall off a linux.
From the article:
Yes, you're right about that.
Weak
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