• Telorand@reddthat.com
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      5 months ago

      Read the article. They didn’t “get into” anything. They got told to take five add-ons down or face the wrath of a regime with a close relationship with defenestration, which they did only for Russians.

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          Hence why they were forced to ultimately remove the requested add-ons. Doesn’t make Mozilla somehow bad because they chose not to die on this hill.

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      Every major company does this, it just doesn’t make headlines. Plus I’m sure they know you can still install it outside of the store.

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          You know as well as I do that Mozilla isn’t exactly a small community project. This isn’t a surprise to me.

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            It isn’t much of a surprise to me either. I heard of them jumping into politics and misusing donations in the past. But it doesn’t mean they’re good