Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
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Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
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Re: Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
#2Just noticed this a few moments ago myself. I am not as angry about it as the reporter, but agree there should be a setting to disable ads if they're going to throw ads in Firefox.
Re: Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
#3It was decent up until the last half. The all caps nature of your post was unnecessary and childish, and while it makes sense to be upset at Mozilla's mismanagement and ads in your browser, you cite needlessly off-topic examples where Mozilla should actually be doing something (aside from the color scheme part).
Re: Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
#4Is self-promoting your own bug report complaints allowed at HN?
Re: Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
#5After many, many years of stubbornly staying on Firefox, I recently finally made the switch to Vivaldi.
This reinforces my decision.
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#6Mozilla is in a tough spot. An ad for their VPN might be amongst the least bad options they have.
Mozilla plays an important role in providing platform diversity.
Any user that wants Mozilla to succeed but protests by using a WebKit based browser is achieving only a pyrrhic victory.
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#7Mozilla is in a tough spot. An ad for their VPN might be amongst the least bad options they have. Mozilla plays an important role in providing platform diversity. Any user that wants Mozilla to succeed but protests by using a WebKit based browser is achieving only a pyrrhic victory.
Mozilla would be in a much less tough spot if they didn't keep rearranging their deckchairs every six months, and actually let us fund the browser team directly.
Re: Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
#8> My new tab window should have no advertisements in it, because you are a nonprofit.
That doesn't mean they're a non-revenue.
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#9If this is what they need to do to survive, they already lost. The userbase won't accept ads.
Re: Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
#10It was decent up until the last half. The all caps nature of your post was unnecessary and childish, and while it makes sense to be upset at Mozilla's mismanagement and ads in your browser, you cite needlessly off-topic examples where Mozilla should actually be doing something (aside from the color scheme part).
Does Mozilla really need a VR research team?