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FIFA Worldcup Ad in FireFox on Android (thelemmy.club)
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WTF? Do you see this as well?

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

I did see that and was wtf about it. And "Nimbus experiments" (per Katy's post below) means "ads"? Give it a break, Mozilla. Ok I'll turn off the experiments before they start injecting AI slop into pages.

Added: there appears to be no way to turn off all the experiments permanently. You can only change them one at a time, and sometimes it's unclear which setting turns the experiment off. In most there is a "control" setting and one or more "treatment" settings, where "control" presumably means off. FIFA is an experiment all by itself. Sheesh.

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

    Go to Settings -> About Firefox/Fennec

    Tap the logo until it says "Debug settings enabled"

    Go back and enter the new "Secret Settings" menu. There you can turn off Nimbus and Labs permanently. Also toggle "Keep Debug Menu revealed" so you don't have to enable it every time you want to change something.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”?

    Not new, believe it or not. In 2017 they rolled out the creepiest experiment possible and then apologized with language that would be at home today.

    "Although we always have the best intentions, not everything that we try works as we want," said Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla's chief marketing officer... "This was not a paid promotion but rather a collaboration that was intended to be fun."

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