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

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

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?

The World Cup used to be something that people actually looked forward to with a kind of simple joy. Before, say, 2018, this kind of countdown would have been useful information to me.

I think this is someone who misread the mood of their users to FIFA not paid placement.

Why would FIFA give a shit about Firefox users anyway? 😆

The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox

https://ironfoxoss.org/

You're welcome

Boycott

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.

I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.

Yeah same here wtf

You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments

It's not on my waterfox mobile :)

God forbid devs be excited for something.

Is it an advertisement? Looks more like a countdown to a world event.

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?

Who cares? Billions of people enjoy the world cup, whats wrong with a little timer? I think its fun that they added this idk also if fifa did pay mozilla for this it just wouldnt make any sense no? 2% use firefox while majority use chrome, why would fifa pay mozilla and not chrome? They clearly have enough to advertise on chrome. I think its the devs appealing to people who enjoy world cup

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.

i was expecting more from the fennec team

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

I use regular Firefox and dont have any ads.

wtf me too. where do i complain?

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.

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).

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

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

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)

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