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submitted 21 hours ago by robber@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

WTF? Do you see this as well?

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago
[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago
[-] btbt@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

I’m not gonna lie idk what I’m supposed to be seeing here

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[-] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

They need more things to deface than the whales conservation mural in Dallas

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 29 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 minutes ago

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.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago

as an argentinian i found this cool 😎

[-] liinux@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago

cuantas copas tenes?

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

I think it is cool that you are argentinian, don't let them kill you or anything

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 hours ago

You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments

[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 18 hours ago

can we stop shoving sports into everyone's faces? I live in brazil and is so fucking annoying to hear about yet a fucking another sports news

I hate this expectation people impose onto me and everyone that they should care and magically be enthusiastic about it

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[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago
[-] ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I want to like firefox on android but all browers either break websights or are slow as hell. I just use brave on android, not that I want to.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Thanks, I have beenlooking for this and waterwolf

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Best app ever bruh

[-] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

I'm not seeing it on my Firefox Mobile, nor do I see any additional setting under the 'homepage' section.

[-] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago

wtf me too. where do i complain?

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago

No. Same Fennec F-Droid here, but nothing unusual.

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

I use regular Firefox and dont have any ads.

[-] mmus@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

I remember some early version of Firefox all the way back in 2002 or 2006 had some world cup promotion kinda thing. But I guess it wasn't a payed promotion or anything like that and the event was perceived to be a lot less corporate then nowadays.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 15 points 18 hours ago

I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 44 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Oh what the Fuck

Who do I submit a complaint to?

Edit: hey, also make sure it isn't set to delete everything it's ever downloaded when you clear your history. This setting is enabled by default now! Wtf is happening at Mozilla?

[-] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 19 points 19 hours ago

hey, also make sure it isn't set to delete everything it's ever downloaded when you clear your history. This setting is enabled by default now! Wtf is happening at Mozilla?

I think that part is just a misunderstanding, the setting simply defines what to do when you delete a download from the downloads page. Clearing your history does not affect you downloads

[-] ctry21@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

Yep, came with the AI update yesterday for me on Fennec. Wish they would leave Fennec as the no-bullshit version as it should be.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

What AI update for Fennec??

[-] ctry21@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

The Firefox AI controls got pushed out with the latest update, everything's on by default but can be disabled in the settings

[-] cristian64@reddthat.com 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I saw this ad too.

As far as I know, I have all that crap disabled, and yet Mozilla shoved this ad up my ass.

Did I miss anything? What do I need to disable?

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 8 points 17 hours ago

Settings -> Homepage -> Turn off "World Cup"

[-] cristian64@reddthat.com 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Thanks. There was indeed a new setting there and it was enabled by default.

I'm fucking angry.

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 4 points 12 hours ago

You're welcome, I had to go find it after seeing it pop up on mine

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago
[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 21 hours ago

The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox

[-] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Yeah same here wtf

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 12 points 21 hours ago

It's not on my waterfox mobile :)

[-] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 19 hours ago

Nor on Firefox for Android. But I've removed the "sponsored stuff" on my new tabs page. This is more user error than intrusion IMO.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

I got it on a fresh Firefox install.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This is what my homepage settings look like on android. The world cup ad is entirely separate from sponsored stuff, and is enabled by default

[-] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago

Huh. I don't have that World Cup option. Is it a regional thing? I'm running Firefox 151.0.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Maybe. I'm in the US

[-] Decq@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

I had sponsored stuff disabled too, and it still shows up. So it's not 'user-error'. Now don't get me wrong. I'm excited for the world cup so I don't mind the countdown. But only excited to see how big of a cluster fuck it's going to be.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 17 hours ago

They added a new setting for "world cup" specifically. Its not user error since its enabled by default and silently.

[-] racoon@lemmy.ml 4 points 19 hours ago

Neither on Librefoz desktop

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Chillest devs in existence

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[-] elvith@feddit.org 4 points 17 hours ago

Can't reproduce on my end. I'm currently on a WiFi with a pihole, though (and uBlock Origin on FF mobile, but that might not work on those pages)

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

nothing new here. esr from trixie; release and devedition from packages.mozilla.org. just updated and ran all three to see. sponsored and recommended crud was off (it is literally the first things that get changed on new installs) and are still off.

edit to add: on my android 'tablet' (phone without a sim), which i couldn't check last night.. updated browsers, then: fennec had this world cup ad in it. firefox nightly did not. still trying to get firefox release updated to see (it's only on 148).

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Over the past week or so this has been so infuriating. Firefox is now randomly turning back on sponsored/featured stories in the homepage. So anti-user.

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