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FIFA Worldcup Ad in FireFox on Android (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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WTF? Do you see this as well?

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[–] 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Look, this sucks, FIFA is a shitty organization, but it's possible that the devs are just soccer fanatics. You think Mexicans are boycotting FIFA for instance? They probably mistakenly believed this was apolitical

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I think this is a little attempt to make Firefox more appealing to the everyman. There’s no link to FIFA’s site, no sponsor symbols, no tournament branding, etc. If it was an ad it would be written as FIFA ™ World Cup ™ ®️™ 2026 ™. You’d know because if they wrote it like that and stuck an ugly logo without any agreement with FIFA they would have been sued for 600 million dollars.

    Even back when I had zero interest in watching sports and hung out with people who also didn’t, when the World Cup was happening, all plans change to make the most out of the match schedule.

    For most people on earth, visiting the tournament is pretty political, but watching it at a restaurant or bar kind of isn’t, and seeing a fixture list and scores absolutely isn’t. That’s why there’s so much jockeying over the political potential of the sport in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There’s no link to FIFA’s site

    "View schedule" links to fifa.com

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Huh. I stand corrected. I still believe my theory though. If you normally don’t look up sports stuff, there’s a ton of places online where the match schedule and scores are published. Every sports publication has a section for that, and there’s dozens of apps in each language. And now with the explosion of sports betting there’s way more.

    The most “neutral” way to look at this information would be Google, which has its own UI for it. This is Lemmy, so obviously that wouldn’t seem like a neutral choice to most of us here, including me. I kind of still feel like this is the most neutral choice short of launching Mozilla Sports sponsored by Mozilla BetGamble

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