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What’s stupid about this is the only people still using Firefox are the people they have to know are going to hate this shit the most. I’d prefer they just charge for the software instead of doing this over and over again, and saying “oops we’re sorry, won’t happen again” every single time.

>>jmuguy+(OP)
I wish Mozilla or Microsoft or friends would let me pay $50 extra for a no-bullshit version of their products. It is infuriating when your UX is ruined by a corporation trying to make a couple fucking pennies off you

>>jmuguy+(OP)
I'm using firefox and I don't ever see this sort of stuff people complain about. Where does it even appear? I have new tab set to blank page. Are people leaving new tab at default with suggested content?

At the end of the day firefox is a last refuge of a browser that allows me to block tracking and ads. As long as ublock origin works here and nowhere else this is the browser that I will be using. It's that simple, the internet is just too unusable without ad blocking.

>>asdff+hc
I was incredibly surprised today while checking my gmail to see a modal with a darkened background pop-up to cover the entire web page. It was an ad for Mozilla VPN. I did some googling to find out if it was a gmail ad or a FireFox ad but didn't find anything until the bug report was shared here.

>>jmuguy+(OP)
This is what bothers me a lot yes. Especially in terms of features.

Mozilla is still targeting the mainstream user that uses Chrome. Spending a lot of time on gloss and removing 'power' features.

Yet they don't understand they already lost the chrome user years ago so badly that they don't even remember the name. And they're now alienating their remaining userbase.