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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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[–] 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.