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Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

by maccam94 on 5/25/23, 5:34 PM with 10 comments

• by fodmap on 5/25/23, 7:19 PM

  Dear Mozilla Team, that's really annoying.

  Possible solution as stated on https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_fir...

  In about:config set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false.

• by _zzaw on 5/25/23, 5:59 PM

  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.

• by lamontcg on 5/25/23, 7:16 PM

  Related reddit threads:

  https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13rnt88/why_is_fir...

  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.

• by Zak on 5/25/23, 8:55 PM

  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

• by maccam94 on 5/25/23, 5:35 PM

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

• by Brendinooo on 5/25/23, 7:29 PM

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

• by redavni on 5/25/23, 5:38 PM

  Got to pay those San Francisco salaries somehow.