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Firefox Android's FIFA ads (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by turdas@suppo.fi to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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This is the third avenue of FIFA World Cup advertising I've had to block in Firefox for Android (two different home page ads and now this notification), and my patience is starting to run thin.

Are there good mobile browser alternatives that support the same extension Firefox does (in my case, uBlock, SponsorBlock and Video Background Play Fix)?

Also, and I imagine the answer to this is "no", do those alternatives support the sync features of Firefox? I actually use and quite like those.

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are plenty of Firefox forks in the F-Droid store. I use Fennec which natively supports everything you mentioned.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or Ironfox. I installed Ironfox after a Fennec recently shit the bed and didn't work at all. It's good, too.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mozilla: "Firefox is losing millions of users"

Also Mozilla: "let's alienate our most loyal users with World Cup ads in Firefox!"

FFS guys.

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 2 points 1 week ago

And Ai, don’t forget the ai. Really sad directions being taken by literally the only chrome alternative browser.

[–] liinux@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure how Firefox can know the difference between a loyal and casual user, but if such thing even exist it doesn't matter to Mozilla.

Let's be real, how many % of the browser market is owned Firefox? 3%? Loyal users would be like 0.5% or even less.

They care about money (and is fine, they need it to maintain the project) and attracting new casual users, and this is the kind of thing that do both: Not sure if FIFA sponsored Mozilla but looks like, and casual people will open Firefox just to see the World Cup results

And even so, you can just turn it off, I guess

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Hmm I've never once seen an ad but I have all the home page stuff turned off.

I tried toggling them and none of them showed anything like you screenshot.

I'd also think turning off any setting with the word "sponsor" might work

Edit: realized the screenshot is supposed to be a notification... I also haven't ever seen a notification outside of functional ones, and I don't see any setting about it anywhere...

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Similar to me, and haven't seen that ad. I also checked that all notification channela are enabled for me.

There is a setting: Data collection -> Studies. That may be the reason for OP. But if data collection is disabled then it also disables studies:

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For me there's a class of notification labeled "Marketing". It's disabled now but obviously wasn't when I got the notification, presumably on account of it being new.