Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?
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Why am I seeing this adorable red panda?
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#2I put enormous effort into blocking as much advertising and marketing from my life as is humanly possible. I have written my own browser plugins and scripts, I have created network-wide blockers, I do not listen to the radio, I do not watch television, I do not look at billboards.
I use Firefox to protect my privacy from advertisers and to block ads. So you may be able to imaging my rage when Firefox updated and automatically loaded this full-page ad from Our Dark Lord Disney:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/98.0/whatsnew/?oldvers...
It's no secret that Mozilla needs cash. But I imagine this move is counter-productive as a lot of people like me, who support them monetarily as much as I can by purchasing their various apps and services, are driven away by loathsome ads.
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#3It's depressing how it's becoming almost impossible to avoid inbuilt advertising in web browsers.
I still am annoyed at Google for adding ads onto the new tab page of Chrome. Yes, it's possible to use an extension to replace the new tab page, but I don't want a new new tab page, I want the stock one without ads.
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#4I put enormous effort into blocking as much advertising and marketing from my life as is humanly possible. I have written my own browser plugins and scripts, I have created network-wide blockers, I do not listen to the radio, I do not watch television, I do not look at billboards. I use Firefox to protect my privacy from advertisers and to block ads. So you may be able to imaging my rage when Firefox updated and auto…
I (based in Europe) see a page presenting Mozilla VPN. Are you saying you see an ad for Disney?
[edit] I used a United States VPN now. Indeed a Disney ad for a movie. In Europe it's a static page with some text about Mozilla VPN.
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#5I put enormous effort into blocking as much advertising and marketing from my life as is humanly possible. I have written my own browser plugins and scripts, I have created network-wide blockers, I do not listen to the radio, I do not watch television, I do not look at billboards. I use Firefox to protect my privacy from advertisers and to block ads. So you may be able to imaging my rage when Firefox updated and auto…
I (based in Europe) see a page presenting Mozilla VPN. Are you saying you see an ad for Disney? [edit] I used a United States VPN now. Indeed a Disney ad for a movie. In Europe it's a static page with some text about Mozilla VPN.
Interesting. Yes; it is a slimy bait-and-switch ad for Disney's newest animated series - ultimately an ad for their streaming service. I will not support them by posting links here.
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#6I put enormous effort into blocking as much advertising and marketing from my life as is humanly possible. I have written my own browser plugins and scripts, I have created network-wide blockers, I do not listen to the radio, I do not watch television, I do not look at billboards. I use Firefox to protect my privacy from advertisers and to block ads. So you may be able to imaging my rage when Firefox updated and auto…
I (based in Europe) see a page presenting Mozilla VPN. Are you saying you see an ad for Disney? [edit] I used a United States VPN now. Indeed a Disney ad for a movie. In Europe it's a static page with some text about Mozilla VPN.
for those of us outside the US and without VPN, archive.org also captured it from the US: https://web.archive.org/web/20220308222503/https://www.mozil...
EDIT: vs screenshot what EU sees: https://i.imgur.com/S1ueBQn.png
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I (based in Europe) see a page presenting Mozilla VPN. Are you saying you see an ad for Disney? [edit] I used a United States VPN now. Indeed a Disney ad for a movie. In Europe it's a static page with some text about Mozilla VPN.
Interesting. Yes; it is a slimy bait-and-switch ad for Disney's newest animated series - ultimately an ad for their streaming service. I will not support them by posting links here.
Every day I consider saying 'to hell with it' and going back to Safari.
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#8Firefox V89 was last 'not actively terrible' version in my opinion. I've disabled updates and I'll continue using it until it breaks or becomes too insecure. At that point I'll jump ship to Waterfox or another browser.
Disabling updates was not straightforward. Settings in about:config and GPO are ignored, I had to create a policies.json as described here, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1304175.
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#9Firefox V89 was last 'not actively terrible' version in my opinion. I've disabled updates and I'll continue using it until it breaks or becomes too insecure. At that point I'll jump ship to Waterfox or another browser. Disabling updates was not straightforward. Settings in about:config and GPO are ignored, I had to create a policies.json as described here, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1304175 .
That version almost certainly has exploitable CVEs. You can't just not update a browser.
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#10I put enormous effort into blocking as much advertising and marketing from my life as is humanly possible. I have written my own browser plugins and scripts, I have created network-wide blockers, I do not listen to the radio, I do not watch television, I do not look at billboards. I use Firefox to protect my privacy from advertisers and to block ads. So you may be able to imaging my rage when Firefox updated and auto…
Glad to know I'm not the only anti-ad person who was incensed.