Firefox now blocks Ad-filtering add-ons (uBlock Origin, AdBlock) in China

Re:Firefox now blocks Ad-filtering add-ons (uBlock Origin, A... by vord1080 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @02:38AM (#30740647)

Before turning this into another Mozilla hate thread, we should consider the following:

1) Mozilla China is practically an independent organization and their Firefox builds have been quite different from "Normal" Firefox for a long time.

2) That error code is 451, "Unavailable For Legal Reasons", usually used to indicate government censorship.

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Re:Firefox now blocks Ad-filtering add-ons (uBlock Origin, A... by zinekeller on Sunday March 20, 2022 @04:27AM (#30741075)

Also, I believe this is related to a legal precedent against ad-blocking in China (https://adguard.com/en/blog/china-blocks-ad-blocking.html), which AdGuard notes that is ironic given that UC Browser has adblockers.

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Re:Firefox now blocks Ad-filtering add-ons (uBlock Origin, A... by tssva on Sunday March 20, 2022 @05:13AM (#30741235)

Was it not choices made by Mozilla which led to consideration 1 being possible? If so, isn't criticism of those decisions valid discussion.

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