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Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's how it starts. Mozilla itself is maybe not hindered on its mission, but the people who depend on them are: the extension was blocked, and there is no official way that I know of to add third-party extension repositories to Mozilla. And sure, the more important part of the problem is you cede just one bit, but the authoritarians won't stop. They know now Mozilla will spread their legs so they'll ask more and more, and Mozilla will for sure choose to bend over for them than to act for the people they were supposed to be fighting for.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

You can sideload if you have the extension file.

The proper response, imo, is to implement third party add-on repos, so if Mozilla is forced to remove access to something, someone else can make a mirror or something. That way someone could create and host a repo that has blocked extensions and Mozilla doesn't get in trouble for it.

There should absolutely be a line drawn here. Mozilla shouldn't make any code changes to any of their services to appease censorship orgs (e.g. domain block lists). Blocking access to services that can be hosted/replaced by someone else shouldn't be an issue.