Re: TW Firefox 151.0.4 - pushing World Cup Widget Ads to users??

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On Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 at 9:44 PM, David C Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:

> All, Devs,
> 
>    What on earth is going on with firefox in openSUSE? I updated TW
> today to 20260615 and immediately upon switching to the newtab page I'm
> hit with an ad for a World Cup widget that will automatically be
> installed if I restart firefox. What on earth is going on with openSUSE
> firefox?
> 
>    Searching a bit in the registry I run across new entries in
> about:config at:
> 
> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.sports.worldCup.matchesEndpoint
> 
> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.sports.worldCup.teamsEndpoint
> 
>    Both are set to URLs similar to:
> 
> https://merino.services.mozilla.com/api/v1/wcs/teams
> 
>    Don't we sanitize firefox so the disto packages don't put out ads?

switch to zen and do without the privacy issues.