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[return to "Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage"]
1. wlesie+93[view] [source] 2023-05-26 15:55:58
>>airhan+(OP)
Makes you wonder how someone thought this was a good idea in a browser that was an early pioneer of popup blockers. Imagine if Firefox in the 2000's had seen popup ads and said "Yeah let's get in on that action!"

At least it was a small scale experiment and not something that rolled out to the whole install base, I use Firefox on a couple of computers and didn't see it myself. But should you really need user feedback to know that inserting an overlay that looks like in-page ad content is a bad idea?

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2. weinzi+S7[view] [source] 2023-05-26 16:18:38
>>wlesie+93
If something like this happens once it could be a slip, but we've been there again and again. Mozilla is testing how far it can go only backpedaling when there is resistance. I don't trust them a bit and would switch Browser anytime if there was a visble alternative.
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