WTF on the part of Mozilla
I suspect this was a “do it or we’ll categorize Mozilla products as malicious software” situations. But some transparency from Mozilla would be nice.
They should tell Russia to eat a dick. Remember when Google did that to China? I thought it was very cool of them
Let them. If everyone refuses to comply the authoritarian control of the Russian government over its people will crumble a little.
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.
Instagram is banned and blocked in Russia but it hasn’t stopped the people from using it at all.
firefox can install extensions outside of mozilla add-ons
release builds cannot and all extensions not signed by Mozilla will refuse to install
On mobile that may be the case, but on desktop you can definitely install extensions not signed by Mozilla
Shadowsocks…
And guys! Please get your snowflake proxies running!
Well, Tor (with bridges) still works just fine, I don’t really know any other “crowdsourced” proxy networks. Telegram isn’t blocked (it used to be, but everyone used it anyway, including people in the government, so they unblocked it), so any info there is freely available. Wireguard and OpenVPN are blocked (even within Russia for some reason), shadowsocks is throttled on certain connections but works fine, and I haven’t extensively tested anything else.
Also, mobile networks are used for testing stricter blocking measures before rolling them out to landline connections
I’m using Outline. Is that safe? I’ve never tested it against a hostile nation though.
And US government just forbade any IT services to work with Russia
A quick web search for “page is not available in your region” indicates that it’s not the first time they’ve done something like this.
Either Connect to VPN > Download the Add-on.
Or, on the GitHub or Gitlab page, provide a copy of extension and the instruction to install it locally.
Just volunteer to go to Ukraine, then surrender. Try not to get raped by your own guys!
