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Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)

submitted 4 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

Instagram is banned and blocked in Russia but it hasn't stopped the people from using it at all.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] RandomGen1@lemm.ee 2 points 4 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