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[+] [S] -27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes they kind of are. I'm not sure how many Firefox users there are in Russia but some how I think there enough that it would be yet another bad look for the authoritarian government.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I checked, and according to Statcounter it's at 3.3%. So if Mozilla did go hardball, it'd affect an insignificant amount of people.

    Realistically though, I don't follow world politics much but I assume that "blocking firefox" probably wouldn't be the worst optics they've had in the past few years.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    If Mozilla gets blocked, people would just install some other browser (probably, something from Russia). I do not see how this helps anyone but the government itself. And departure of hundreds (if not thousands) of western companies did nothing to the Russian government, some problems with a browser with almost non-existent userbase would have the same effect. It should be quite clear by now that such tactic simply does not work.

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