Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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.

Re: Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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Post by lamontcg » Thu, May 25, 2023, 7:16 PM UTC

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.

Re: Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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Post by fodmap » Thu, May 25, 2023, 7:19 PM UTC

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.

Re: Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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Post by Brendinooo » Thu, May 25, 2023, 7:29 PM UTC

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

Re: Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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Post by Brendinooo » Thu, May 25, 2023, 7:29 PM UTC

fodmap wrote: post #6

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.

Thanks for this, I figured there would be something like this in config.

Re: Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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Post by krunck » Thu, May 25, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

_zzaw wrote: post #4

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.

I think Mozilla is trying to transition from software to services.

We can always fork off another browser if they get too abusive.

Re: Mozilla sends popup ad overlay in Firefox

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Post by Zak » Thu, May 25, 2023, 8:55 PM UTC

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