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Firefox Android's FIFA ads (suppo.fi)
submitted 4 months ago by 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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[–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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

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    • [+] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 4 months 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:

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Settings > Homepage Turn the switch to off.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    ironfox
    https://ironfoxoss.org/

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I've been getting them in Android auto and want to know how to disable that shit also. (Unrelated to Firefox)

    Couldn't give less of a fuck about who scored a goal.

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    [–] 11 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months 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

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Get Fennec or IronFox, they're Firefox forks so you get all the extensions you're used to minus the BS.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Does Mozilla get paid by Fifa for this?

    Also I have Fennec from f-droid and haven't received anything world cup related

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    fifa ads everywhere, quite a pain

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