[tbb-bugs] #30175 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Manually whitelist extensions removed from AMO for purely political reasons in Tor Browser to fight Mozilla's censorship

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#30175: Manually whitelist extensions removed from AMO for purely political reasons
in Tor Browser to fight Mozilla's censorship
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks               |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  High                      |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Major                     |     Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                            |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                            |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:1 cypherpunks]:
 > > Tor Browser should take a stand against this freedom of expression-
 hostile action from its partner Mozilla by adding to its forked Firefox
 code a "whitelist" of extensions that were removed from AMO purely for
 politically biased reasons
 >
 > How would that work? There's no need for a "whitelist" since there is no
 "blocklist" in the first place, one can easily install that extension by
 manually downloading it for instance.

 Yep. Apart from that we strongly discourage installing random extensions
 from the internet (even from Mozilla's extensions' store) as they contain
 unknown risks to the privacy and anonymity of Tor Browser users. Thus,
 this is a won't fix.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30175#comment:2>
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