Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request

[jobbautista9]

Remember when Mozilla used to give authoritarians the middle finger?

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/12/moz ... p-blocked/

[Pentium4User]

Mozilla turned away from the principles years ago.

I am proud I don't use their product anymore and switched to others.

[Moonchild]

Mozilla turned away from the principles years ago.

That changed when they started having financial partnerships with the authoritarians to get more money.
e.g.: Mozilla has a search revenue partnership with Yandex in Firefox. What do you think they would choose: censoring their users, or losing that search revenue?

[Massacre]

Then US and EU both should apply sanctions to entire Mozilla foundation for wartime collaboration with aggressor.

[Pentium4User]

Then US and EU both should apply sanctions to entire Mozilla foundation for wartime collaboration with aggressor.

EU itself wants censorship, I assume they won't attack them for doing that in that case.
They also don't want addons that can circumvent censorship. They maybe want to have a good relation to Mozilla to react when they need it.

[suzyne]

e.g.: Mozilla has a search revenue partnership with Yandex in Firefox.

Is a search extension an indication of revenue partnership? Does every extension only exist in the folder above because of some financial deal?

Or are some provided because they are what users expect to be included as search options.

[Moonchild]

Is a search extension an indication of revenue partnership? Does every extension only exist in the folder above because of some financial deal?
Or are some provided because they are what users expect to be included as search options.

You can be pretty sure that every single one of the search extensions in that folder is linked to a partnership, especially if they pass through specific IDs to the search providers

[suzyne]

You can be pretty sure that every single one of the search extensions in that folder is linked to a partnership, especially if they pass through specific IDs to the search providers

Like, I am aware that browser makers do deals to set a particular search engine as the default (or even better, make changing that default hard or impossible to do). But before, I have perhaps naively thought that offering a range of search engines as options was simply a good idea and the norm for any browser that wants to be taken seriously by a global audience.

I guess I expected more than a json file when clicking on the link to read more about the "revenue partnership".  But you are probably correct, so I will leave it there because I am not here to defend censorship or Mozilla.

[moonbat]

They have reversed their decision now.

[Eduardolucas1]

Then US and EU both should apply sanctions to entire Mozilla foundation for wartime collaboration with aggressor.

Are we now allowed to bring questionable political topics here? who is the agressor or the defender its too tied to political allignments which even vary depending on where you are around the world. The forum is now more and more with this in posts and replies. I would advise to think about this in its potential to alienate global south users and donators.

[Moonchild]

This is the off-topic board. What is discussed here does not reflect the project's values in any way, shape or form. Users in the community wanted this space to discuss potentially controversial topics so that's what we have here. If you don't want to risk being offended, don't read the topics in this board.

I do want to avoid full-blown political and polarizing discussions as there are dedicated fora for that, but just discussing tech news how Mozilla deals with Russia and censorship is well within the scope of what's generally in the off-topic board. As stated in this board's rules though: Please do exercise some common sense.