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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Iirc, it only comes up if you search for firefox. They could have changed it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

Confirmed. They definitely paid to advertise under "Firefox" searches.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Out of interest, does anything similar come up for chrome? The common enemy of both.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I got the same result, searching for Firefox on Play store

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Yup, third confirmation that this shows up as a "limited time event" which I suspect is an ad in playstore if you search for firefox.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

It appeared for me as well. As the second result, under "Limited-time events", first result was Firefox. What followed below in the "More results" were the rest of the Firefox variants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is after searching Firefox on the Apple App Store, same as searching for brave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I think its just on the play store.