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Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

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Post by atomical »

jasonlotito wrote: post #76
who_what_why wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's the browser a scam? I use it and enjoy it. I think their business model is the most egalitarian business model amongst all browsers.

The collect money on someone's behalf, without that person knowing. It's a scam. It would be like me taking money on behalf of you. Only I wouldn't tell you. And now someone thinks they are paying you by going through me. Seems like a scam.

Blocking ads and depriving publishers of income is a scam. You are stealing from content creators. BAT gives more revenue to content creators than Google ever would.

Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

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Post by zaarn »

alyandon wrote: post #110
zaarn wrote: post #100

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I've disabled Pocket via about:config and despite a year worth of updates, I honestly had never had the issue of it reenabling. And that is both on Windows with Auto-Update and Linux via package manager.

I run mostly FF dev & nightly and I've had it happen to me multiple times. I'm assuming the Pocket getting re-enabled problem is the result of an internal update to the extension that caused it to re-populate all the defaults in the config. The other config settings I'm going to be less charitable about considering there would be no rational reason for an update to ever change those values.

I've never had the other settings change values either, I suspect you either ran into some bug or the sharing of a profile between dev&nightly is blowing this up.

Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

#123

Post by alyandon »

zaarn wrote: post #122
alyandon wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run mostly FF dev & nightly and I've had it happen to me multiple times. I'm assuming the Pocket getting re-enabled problem is the result of an internal update to the extension that caused it to re-populate all the defaults in the config. The other config settings I'm going to be less charitable about considering there would be no rational reason for an update to ever change those values.

I've never had the other settings change values either, I suspect you either ran into some bug or the sharing of a profile between dev&nightly is blowing this up.

Maybe - but definitely no sharing of profiles between dev & nightly and as you can see based on other comments in this thread I'm not the only one that has witnessed the behavior.

Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

#124

Post by yoasif_ »

Marsymars wrote: post #39
dblohm7 wrote: post #24

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That sounds like a bug to me.

Maybe, but in some similar cases, it's marked as "won't fix": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502188 If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled.

> If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled.

That isn't what the bug report says - package managers don't use the Firefox installer. Are you talking about a real bug (if so, is it logged?), or are you spreading FUD?

Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

#125

Post by yoasif_ »

atomical wrote: post #121
jasonlotito wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The collect money on someone's behalf, without that person knowing. It's a scam. It would be like me taking money on behalf of you. Only I wouldn't tell you. And now someone thinks they are paying you by going through me. Seems like a scam.

Blocking ads and depriving publishers of income is a scam. You are stealing from content creators. BAT gives more revenue to content creators than Google ever would.

> Blocking ads and depriving publishers of income is a scam.

But this is literally what Brave does by default.

Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

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Post by Marsymars »

yoasif_ wrote: post #124
Marsymars wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe, but in some similar cases, it's marked as "won't fix": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502188 If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled.

> If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled. That isn't what the bug report says - package managers don't use the Firefox installer. Are you talking about a real bug (if so, is it logged?), or are you spreading FUD?

Depends on the package manager. On Windows both Ninite and Chocolatey use the Firefox installer and re-enable Firefox's automatic updates.
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