Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

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Browser maker decided not to follow Putin's orders. Well done

Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin.

Among those extensions were three pieces of code that were explicitly designed to circumvent state censorship – including a VPN and Censor Tracker, a multi-purpose add-on that allowed users to see what websites shared user data, and a tool to access Tor websites. "We recently noticed that our add-on is now unavailable in Russia, despite being developed specifically to circumvent censorship in Russia," dev zombboMicrosoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware

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