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FIFA Worldcup Ad in FireFox on Android (lemmy.ml)

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WTF? Do you see this as well?

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[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago

The World Cup used to be something that people actually looked forward to with a kind of simple joy. Before, say, 2018, this kind of countdown would have been useful information to me.

I think this is someone who misread the mood of their users to FIFA not paid placement.

Why would FIFA give a shit about Firefox users anyway? 😆

[-] Tinks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Agreed. Back when FIFA announced that the US was going to get another world cup I was over the moon and thought for sure my husband and I would go to at least one game, and that was before the host cities were announced. (At that point we were season ticket holders for our local MLS club as well.) I live in a host city, so going wouldn't be even mildly inconvenient, but not only am I not, I don't even plan to watch the cup. 12 and 16 years ago I was watching every single game, even streaming them on my phone while at work. Not that FIFA was a bastion of morality even then, but I feel like it's gotten so much worse, and supporting the games in any way just rubs me wrong. I'm also not happy helping this administration get a win of any kind, so I'll just catch on Lemmy who wins and call it good enough.

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 22 hours ago

In 2010 the entire office shut down, people were projecting games on sheets hung up in the cafeteria, two of my engineers were dutch so the whole team went to go watch one of the games to support them, and nobody even thought about trying to stop it.

It was a multinational company and it gave everybody something to talk about and even the people who didn't care about the games often went along for the drama.

And that's dead dead dead.

My kid asked me yesterday "why does everything just keep getting shittier?"

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It’s Firefox caring about FIFA ad money, not FIFAa caring about you.

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

I used to work at Google before it sucked and this was exactly the kind of thing the search team used to build info boxes for, just cause they knew people would want to know.

Like, there was a time when that company genuinely wanted to be helpful and informative.

I still have room in my heart to believe that people are still enthusiastic soccer fans, even if I'm not any more.

But yeah could also just be monetization.

[-] kepix@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

i was expecting more from the fennec team

[-] kahoodd@reddthat.com 3 points 20 hours ago

lol, somehow this is funny

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

God forbid devs be excited for something.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

The Devs need to be as emotionless and devoid of personality like me

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

They can be excited about something, just don't run ads about it on a browser that I only use so that I don't see ads

[-] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Who cares? Billions of people enjoy the world cup, whats wrong with a little timer? I think its fun that they added this idk also if fifa did pay mozilla for this it just wouldnt make any sense no? 2% use firefox while majority use chrome, why would fifa pay mozilla and not chrome? They clearly have enough to advertise on chrome. I think its the devs appealing to people who enjoy world cup

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I saw this too

[-] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I just remembered that the world cup is going to be in the us. The worst place on earth. I dont understand they dont even watch football and call it a different name and think that only schoolgirls play it, why have it there? Its like having a curling tournament in chad

[-] wieson@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

Is it an advertisement? Looks more like a countdown to a world event.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Widely corrupted organization, and why this date in particular ? why not something actually useful ?

it's (functionally) an ad

[-] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

The organization is corrupted but what alternative is there to watch professional football? Isnt every professional sports league corrupted tho? If youre going to just boycott it because of that i guess you wont be watching any basketball or tennis or whatever. Wouldnt fifa advertise on chrome instead of firefox which has like a very minor share compared to chrome? Why would they advertise on firefox?

[-] marius@feddit.org -2 points 23 hours ago

Dude, it does not even say fifa word up. Get out of your buble. Many people actually care about the word cup

[-] jumponboard@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Which world cup does it count down to?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Boycott

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 days ago

Look, this sucks, FIFA is a shitty organization, but it's possible that the devs are just soccer fanatics. You think Mexicans are boycotting FIFA for instance? They probably mistakenly believed this was apolitical

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah I think this is a little attempt to make Firefox more appealing to the everyman. There’s no link to FIFA’s site, no sponsor symbols, no tournament branding, etc. If it was an ad it would be written as FIFA ™ World Cup ™ ®️™ 2026 ™. You’d know because if they wrote it like that and stuck an ugly logo without any agreement with FIFA they would have been sued for 600 million dollars.

Even back when I had zero interest in watching sports and hung out with people who also didn’t, when the World Cup was happening, all plans change to make the most out of the match schedule.

For most people on earth, visiting the tournament is pretty political, but watching it at a restaurant or bar kind of isn’t, and seeing a fixture list and scores absolutely isn’t. That’s why there’s so much jockeying over the political potential of the sport in the first place.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

as an argentinian i found this cool 😎

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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did see that and was wtf about it. And "Nimbus experiments" (per Katy's post below) means "ads"? Give it a break, Mozilla. Ok I'll turn off the experiments before they start injecting AI slop into pages.

Added: there appears to be no way to turn off all the experiments permanently. You can only change them one at a time, and sometimes it's unclear which setting turns the experiment off. In most there is a "control" setting and one or more "treatment" settings, where "control" presumably means off. FIFA is an experiment all by itself. Sheesh.

[-] Ilumar@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Go to Settings -> About Firefox/Fennec

Tap the logo until it says "Debug settings enabled"

Go back and enter the new "Secret Settings" menu. There you can turn off Nimbus and Labs permanently. Also toggle "Keep Debug Menu revealed" so you don't have to enable it every time you want to change something.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I'll see if it happens again.

[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 2 days ago

can we stop shoving sports into everyone's faces? I live in brazil and is so fucking annoying to hear about yet a fucking another sports news

I hate this expectation people impose onto me and everyone that they should care and magically be enthusiastic about it

[-] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Youre in brazil wtf do you expect lol every country boasts about their countries achievements in sports. I do get your point because most of my life i wasnt into sports and everyone else was into soccer heavily so i felt left out and not normal about it but idk

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh what the Fuck

Who do I submit a complaint to?

Edit: hey, also make sure it isn't set to delete everything it's ever downloaded when you clear your history. This setting is enabled by default now! Wtf is happening at Mozilla?

[-] PostaL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You want to talk to their manager

[-] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 21 points 2 days ago

hey, also make sure it isn't set to delete everything it's ever downloaded when you clear your history. This setting is enabled by default now! Wtf is happening at Mozilla?

I think that part is just a misunderstanding, the setting simply defines what to do when you delete a download from the downloads page. Clearing your history does not affect you downloads

[-] btbt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I’m not gonna lie idk what I’m supposed to be seeing here

[-] marius@feddit.org -3 points 23 hours ago

Guys, just tab the x to remove it. It's not that hard. It's like ranting about the weather widget just because you never leave your room

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments

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[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

https://ironfoxoss.org/

You're welcome

[-] jumponboard@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Nice. Thx! Is that the spiritual successor to mull? Mull was the greatest android browser, a hardened fennec fork.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I love FOSS projects where there isn't a single picture or anything to be found on the main page. I just want to see what I'm getting into before I click download.

[-] Griffus@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I get what you mean and agree, but this is the absolutely most recommended Android browser I've seen since going coming on Lemmy and also on deGoogle communities elsewhere, and was my go to browser until I left Googles Android. Can recommend.

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.

[-] auzy1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Probably nothing....

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

That would be stupid.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox

[-] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Yeah same here wtf

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I use regular Firefox and dont have any ads.

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[-] cristian64@reddthat.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I saw this ad too.

As far as I know, I have all that crap disabled, and yet Mozilla shoved this ad up my ass.

Did I miss anything? What do I need to disable?

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Settings -> Homepage -> Turn off "World Cup"

[-] cristian64@reddthat.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks. There was indeed a new setting there and it was enabled by default.

I'm fucking angry.

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