I am one of the developers of the Censor Tracker add-on, which is listed on Mozilla’s add-on repository. We recently noticed that our add-on is now unavailable in Russia, despite being developed specifically to circumvent censorship in Russia. We have not changed any visibility settings, nor have w…

Hi Folks - I wanted to provide the latest update here as well as thank you for your patience while we worked through this issue. Thank you. Ed In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia. Our initial decisio…

We did not violate Mozilla’s rules in any way, so this decision seems strange and unfair, to be honest.

Same restriction for Runet Censorship Bypass (Обход блокировок Рунета) : [ac-ffx-blocked] No notification was received from Mozilla.

As well as: Planet VPN https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/free-vpn-proxy-planetvpn/ FastProxy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fastproxy-россия/

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I might also add that the extension pages are freely available in other regions, for example in the USA. This confirms the idea of regional blocks specifically in the RU region. RU: [Screenshot from 2024-06-10 23-51-04] USA: [Screenshot from 2024-06-10 23-51-31]

Could Mozilla’s blocking of add-ons result in Russian Firefox users facing the danger of torture and imprisonment? Or is this just an act of censorship on Mozilla’s part?

It’s not illegal to circumvent censorship in Russia. However propaganda of ways of bypassing censorship is punished by law. Running a Tor node is also illegal. So, no, Mozilla’s blocking of add-ons doesn’t result in helping Russian users to avoid torture or imprisonment. P.S. I believe you meant no…

The use of tools to circumvent censorship is not prohibited in Russia. So it seems to have been Mozilla’s decision.

I meant that Mozilla’s support of censorship and the prohibition of bypassing blocks will put users at risk of persecution.

We are committed to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth — where a person’s demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience. what a joke

The censorship circumvention extension has disappeared from the Russian version of Mozilla Addons

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ValdikSS (iam@valdikss.org.ru) June 9, 2024, 3:37am 4

As well as:

Planet VPN https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/free-vpn-proxy-planetvpn/
FastProxy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fastproxy-россия/

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