WTF? Do you see this as well?

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours 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.

  • TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    I’m not seeing it on my Firefox Mobile, nor do I see any additional setting under the ‘homepage’ section.

  • vapor_body@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours 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

  • mmus@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    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.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    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.