WTF? Do you see this as well?
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? 😆
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.
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?”
It’s Firefox caring about FIFA ad money, not FIFAa caring about you.
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.
God forbid devs be excited for something.
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
The Devs need to be as emotionless and devoid of personality like me
i was expecting more from the fennec team
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
lol, somehow this is funny
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
Which world cup does it count down to?
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?
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 ;_;
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Boycott
I saw this too
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.
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.”
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.
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?
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
You want to talk to their manager
You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments
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You’re welcome
Nice. Thx! Is that the spiritual successor to mull? Mull was the greatest android browser, a hardened fennec fork.
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.
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.
Best app ever bruh
I want to like firefox on android but all browers either break websights or are slow as hell. I just use brave on android, not that I want to.
Thanks, I have beenlooking for this and waterwolf
