A few minutes after installing, Firefox presented me with this... Ironically, while I was in the settings to turn off sponsored advertisements.

A continuation of this post, which was about nag screens that encourage you to use features (AI in that case).

Screenshot of a popup that reads "add another layer of privacy. Turn it (the VPN) on to keep your browsing more private. Get more bandwidth and unlimited locations to browse from. Now until August 31."
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Agreed. I probably wouldn't have known it was there without that pop-up, and it was easy enough to dismiss as I'm not interested right now.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago

    It already has a toolbar icon, and that icon gets a blue notification dot that distinguishes it from the dull gray text/icons, on every new install or profile

    (Every Firefox profile tends to have a bunch of onboarding prompts with some kind of timer attached, but I don't know how to disable them without digging into advanced configuration)

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