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Ok it's getting properly sus now. Mozilla goes into politics way too much
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.
Doesn't matter. Politics is politics and always ends badly.
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.
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.
So you're defending major companies? Ok. May as well do what Jia Tan did...
You know as well as I do that Mozilla isn't exactly a small community project. This isn't a surprise to me.
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
It is a hard issue to solve. However, I think Mozilla should ignore Russia.