Is it an advertisement? Looks more like a countdown to a world event.
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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.
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
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.
as an argentinian i found this cool 😎
cuantas copas tenes?
I think it is cool that you are argentinian, don't let them kill you or anything
They need more things to deface than the whales conservation mural in Dallas
You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments
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
Dude come on soccer is like the only sport that's not high-falutin bullshit for most of the globe maybe we could reach out to the devs and explain how this feels to everyone during an ongoing genocide ;_;
You're welcome
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
wtf me too. where do i complain?
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?
You want to talk to their manager
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
I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.
No. Same Fennec F-Droid here, but nothing unusual.
I use regular Firefox and dont have any ads.
Me too
I'm not seeing it on my Firefox Mobile, nor do I see any additional setting under the 'homepage' section.
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.
What AI update for Fennec??
The Firefox AI controls got pushed out with the latest update, everything's on by default but can be disabled in the settings
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.
Yeah same here wtf
The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox
🤮
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?
Settings -> Homepage -> Turn off "World Cup"
Thanks. There was indeed a new setting there and it was enabled by default.
I'm fucking angry.
You're welcome, I had to go find it after seeing it pop up on mine
It's not on my waterfox mobile :)
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.
I got it on a fresh Firefox install.
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
Huh. I don't have that World Cup option. Is it a regional thing? I'm running Firefox 151.0.
Maybe. I'm in the US
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.
They added a new setting for "world cup" specifically. Its not user error since its enabled by default and silently.
Nor on my IronFox 😇
I don't even see it on FF mobile which I've not even messed with settings extensively.
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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