WTF? Do you see this as well?
God forbid devs be excited for something.
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? 😆
It’s Firefox caring about FIFA ad money, not FIFAa caring about you.
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 an ad
ew
Boycott
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.
I’m not gonna lie idk what I’m supposed to be seeing here
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.
as an argentinian i found this cool 😎
cuantas copas tenes?
I think it is cool that you are argentinian, don’t let them kill you or anything
You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments
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 ;_;
You’re welcome
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
Thanks, I have beenlooking for this and waterwolf
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.
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?
You want to talk to their manager
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
I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.
Probably nothing…
That would be stupid.
They need more things to deface than the whales conservation mural in Dallas
wtf me too. where do i complain?
