WTF? Do you see this as well?
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.
Go to Settings -> About Firefox/Fennec
Tap the logo until it says “Debug settings enabled”
Go back and enter the new “Secret Settings” menu. There you can turn off Nimbus and Labs permanently. Also toggle “Keep Debug Menu revealed” so you don’t have to enable it every time you want to change something.
Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I’ll see if it happens again.
And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”?
Not new, believe it or not. In 2017 they rolled out the creepiest experiment possible and then apologized with language that would be at home today.
“Although we always have the best intentions, not everything that we try works as we want,” said Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla’s chief marketing officer… “This was not a paid promotion but rather a collaboration that was intended to be fun.”
The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox
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.
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 got it on a fresh Firefox install.
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.
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Nor on my IronFox 😇
I don’t even see it on FF mobile which I’ve not even messed with settings extensively.
Firefox or fennec?
Firefox and ironFox
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 saw this too
wtf me too. where do i complain?
I’m not seeing it on my Firefox Mobile, nor do I see any additional setting under the ‘homepage’ section.
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.
Is it an advertisement? Looks more like a countdown to a world event.
Widely corrupted organization, and why this date in particular ? why not something actually useful ?
it’s an ad
Dude, it does not even say fifa word up. Get out of your buble. Many people actually care about the word cup
Which world cup does it count down to?
You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments
No. Same Fennec F-Droid here, but nothing unusual.
Boycott
I use regular Firefox and dont have any ads.
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