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Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

23 points by maccam94 3y ago

maccam94 3y ago
I would have taken a full screenshot but I had my company's Gitlab open behind it.
redavni 3y ago
Got to pay those San Francisco salaries somehow.
_zzaw 3y ago
Ew. Any browser pulling that shit with me goes straight to the discard pile. I get that enough from websites; I should never have to see that from my own browser. Really sad to see that from Firefox, though. I'd have expected it from Edge or even Chrome; suggests that Mozilla is getting desperate.
- krunck 3y ago
  I think Mozilla is trying to transition from software to services. We can always fork off another browser if they get too abusive.
lamontcg 3y ago
Related reddit threads: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_firefox_windows_11_version_showing_me/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_fir... https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13ro31o/mozilla_sends_popup_ad_overlay_in_firefox/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13ro31o/mozilla_se... You can open about:config and set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false to disable it. I can't quite believe how tone-deaf and counterproductive this is.
- whoisthis4chan 3y ago
  brilliant thanks for the about:config toggle
fodmap 3y ago
Dear Mozilla Team, that's really annoying. Possible solution as stated on https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_firefox_windows_11_version_showing_me/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_fir... In about:config set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false.
- Brendinooo 3y ago
  Thanks for this, I figured there would be something like this in config.
Brendinooo 3y ago
Just got this as well, though I got a graphic instead of a stock photo. Pretty gross.
Zak 3y ago
I just got one of these too, displayed over a site running on my local machine. This is behavior I use open source software to avoid. Of course, their attitude toward extensions on Android Firefox was a big red flag they'd strayed far from their roots, so I'm not exactly shocked. Edit: reported it as a bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835158 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835158

23 points by maccam94 3y ago

maccam94 3y ago

I would have taken a full screenshot but I had my company's Gitlab open behind it.

redavni 3y ago

Got to pay those San Francisco salaries somehow.

_zzaw 3y ago

Ew. Any browser pulling that shit with me goes straight to the discard pile. I get that enough from websites; I should never have to see that from my own browser. Really sad to see that from Firefox, though. I'd have expected it from Edge or even Chrome; suggests that Mozilla is getting desperate.

krunck 3y ago
I think Mozilla is trying to transition from software to services. We can always fork off another browser if they get too abusive.

lamontcg 3y ago

Related reddit threads: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_firefox_windows_11_version_showing_me/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_fir... https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13ro31o/mozilla_sends_popup_ad_overlay_in_firefox/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13ro31o/mozilla_se... You can open about:config and set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false to disable it. I can't quite believe how tone-deaf and counterproductive this is.

whoisthis4chan 3y ago
brilliant thanks for the about:config toggle

fodmap 3y ago

Dear Mozilla Team, that's really annoying. Possible solution as stated on https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_firefox_windows_11_version_showing_me/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_fir... In about:config set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false.

Brendinooo 3y ago
Thanks for this, I figured there would be something like this in config.

Brendinooo 3y ago

Just got this as well, though I got a graphic instead of a stock photo. Pretty gross.

Zak 3y ago

I just got one of these too, displayed over a site running on my local machine. This is behavior I use open source software to avoid. Of course, their attitude toward extensions on Android Firefox was a big red flag they'd strayed far from their roots, so I'm not exactly shocked. Edit: reported it as a bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835158 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835158