WTF? Do you see this as well?
It’s not on my waterfox mobile :)
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God forbid devs be excited for something.
The Devs need to be as emotionless and devoid of personality like me
Yeah same here wtf
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.
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.
First I’m hearing about it. None of those settings changed on my end.
Lucky you. Reading the comments here will show it isn’t just me.
Maybe it’s because I set a lot of those values with user.js?
I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.
Probably nothing…
That would be stupid.
I’m not seeing it on my Firefox Mobile, nor do I see any additional setting under the ‘homepage’ section.
You’re welcome
Thanks, I have beenlooking for this and waterwolf
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.
Best app ever bruh
I love FOSS projects where there isn’t a single picture or anything to be found on the main page. I just want to see what I’m getting into before I click download.
wtf me too. where do i complain?
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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
as an argentinian i found this cool 😎
I think it is cool that you are argentinian, don’t let them kill you or anything
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.
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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 saw this too
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
