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emergence_trailblazer

@kevinrothrock @mike805 ok thanks @mike805 for the precision. Indeed it changes what the title suggested.

This being said, it's still a cooperation with Russia. I guess there was other alternatives: accepting to loose the market, providing a way to run alternative stores, recommend alternatives when ppl run Firefox in Russia etc...

13 June at 5:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Vint Prox

@emergence_trailblazer @kevinrothrock @mike805

Well, it's not like, with the direction Firefox was taking this last decade, they would care to make extension repositories a thing that browser natively supports. At least, we can distribute extensions through other sites...

13 June at 7:09 | Open on techhub.social
rugk

@emergence_trailblazer @kevinrothrock @mike805 We'll see what happens, osnews.com/story/139928/under- also implies they likely have to face fines or arrests of Mozilla employees otherwise, so let's see. But it also seems to imply this is not a final decicion… (maybe they get their employees out of there 😉)

13 June at 13:41 | Open on chaos.social
mike805

@rugk @emergence_trailblazer @kevinrothrock Well yeah if they have employees inside Russia who are Russian citizens, then they have to do what the orcs say, at least publicly.

The right thing to do in that case is malicious compliance, i.e. you officially do as you're told, and have some people outside of Russia who are not publicly affiliated make it easy to work around the ban.

People inside Russia should not be involved in that.

13 June at 17:11 | Open on noc.social
rugk

@mike805 @emergence_trailblazer @kevinrothrock and how would you make it "easy to work around" the ban?

13 June at 17:15 | Open on chaos.social
mike805

@rugk @emergence_trailblazer @kevinrothrock Add a Tor hidden service for downloading Mozilla software and plug-ins, for starters.

And there would be a stand-alone installer for the relevant plug-ins, so if I used a Tails live environment or similar, I could download that, copy it out, and load it into my main working environment.

Tails provides very good anonymity, but does not naturally mesh with the rest of your online life. And the Tor exit nodes often get blocked or captcha'd.

13 June at 17:17 | Open on noc.social
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