Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

>>ReadCa+(OP)
Last year Firefox displayed a Disney ad (for the movie 'Turning Red') on the whats-new tab, the tab gets diplayed by default after you upgrade to a new Firefox version I think. US users only.

Screenshot https://web.archive.org/web/20220308222503/https://www.mozil...

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30608022

>>mtmail+d5
Don’t forget the Mr. Robot debacle: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...

They pull this crap all the time and never learn their lessons.

>>rrdhar+kj
Not to defend Firefox, but I believe Mr Robot is what caused them to make a visible toggle for experiments. Sadly it's not off by default, but once it's turned off, you don't really have to worry about it. That said, I never saw this VPN popup.

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