WTF? Do you see this as well?

  • vapor_body@lemmy.ml
    481·
    5 months ago

    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

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      151·
      5 months ago

      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.

        • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          5 months ago

          Huh. I stand corrected. I still believe my theory though. If you normally don’t look up sports stuff, there’s a ton of places online where the match schedule and scores are published. Every sports publication has a section for that, and there’s dozens of apps in each language. And now with the explosion of sports betting there’s way more.

          The most “neutral” way to look at this information would be Google, which has its own UI for it. This is Lemmy, so obviously that wouldn’t seem like a neutral choice to most of us here, including me. I kind of still feel like this is the most neutral choice short of launching Mozilla Sports sponsored by Mozilla BetGamble

    • tb_@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Griffus@lemmy.zip
        3·
        5 months ago

        I get what you mean and agree, but this is the absolutely most recommended Android browser I’ve seen since going coming on Lemmy and also on deGoogle communities elsewhere, and was my go to browser until I left Googles Android. Can recommend.

    • jumponboard@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Nice. Thx! Is that the spiritual successor to mull? Mull was the greatest android browser, a hardened fennec fork.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    12·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Ilumar@lemmy.zip
      4·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • solrize@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 months ago

        Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I’ll see if it happens again.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      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.”

  • wieson@feddit.org
    155·
    5 months ago

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

  • ctry21@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • cristian64@reddthat.com
    71·
    5 months ago

    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?