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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
Dude come on soccer is like the only sport that’s not high-falutin bullshit for most of the globe maybe we could reach out to the devs and explain how this feels to everyone during an ongoing genocide ;_;
Brazil? impossible to avoid then but yeah, still sucks
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
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.
There’s no link to FIFA’s site
“View schedule” links to fifa.com
Huh. I stand corrected. I still believe my theory though. If you normally don’t look up sports stuff, there’s a ton of places online where the match schedule and scores are published. Every sports publication has a section for that, and there’s dozens of apps in each language. And now with the explosion of sports betting there’s way more.
The most “neutral” way to look at this information would be Google, which has its own UI for it. This is Lemmy, so obviously that wouldn’t seem like a neutral choice to most of us here, including me. I kind of still feel like this is the most neutral choice short of launching Mozilla Sports sponsored by Mozilla BetGamble
as an argentinian i found this cool 😎
I think it is cool that you are argentinian, don’t let them kill you or anything
cuantas copas tenes?
The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox
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? 😆
I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.
Boycott
God forbid devs be excited for something.
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.
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.
Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I’ll see if it happens again.
And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”?
Not new, believe it or not. In 2017 they rolled out the creepiest experiment possible and then apologized with language that would be at home today.
“Although we always have the best intentions, not everything that we try works as we want,” said Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla’s chief marketing officer… “This was not a paid promotion but rather a collaboration that was intended to be fun.”
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Is it an advertisement? Looks more like a countdown to a world event.
Widely corrupted organization, and why this date in particular ? why not something actually useful ?
it’s (functionally) an ad
Dude, it does not even say fifa word up. Get out of your buble. Many people actually care about the word cup
It’s not on my waterfox mobile :)
Nor on Firefox for Android. But I’ve removed the “sponsored stuff” on my new tabs page. This is more user error than intrusion IMO.
They added a new setting for “world cup” specifically. Its not user error since its enabled by default and silently.
I got it on a fresh Firefox install.
Nor on my IronFox 😇
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Chillest devs in existence
You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments
I remember some early version of Firefox all the way back in 2002 or 2006 had some world cup promotion kinda thing. But I guess it wasn’t a payed promotion or anything like that and the event was perceived to be a lot less corporate then nowadays.
nothing new here. esr from trixie; release and devedition from packages.mozilla.org. just updated and ran all three to see. sponsored and recommended crud was off (it is literally the first things that get changed on new installs) and are still off.
edit to add: on my android ‘tablet’ (phone without a sim), which i couldn’t check last night… updated browsers, then: fennec had this world cup ad in it. firefox nightly did not. still trying to get firefox release updated to see (it’s only on 148).
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?
Settings -> Homepage -> Turn off “World Cup”
Thanks. There was indeed a new setting there and it was enabled by default.
I’m fucking angry.
You’re welcome, I had to go find it after seeing it pop up on mine
