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

On 6/17/26 1:11 AM, Herbert Renkewitz wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I don’t think the update is the cause. I’m using the same version and 
> don’t have those entries.
> Perhaps they’re coming from an add-on or an infected website Iyou have 
> visited.

UUgh, thanks Herbert....

I hadn't considered that, but I don't that's the case. Scared the hell 
out of me thought. With a panicked search I found:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-world-cup/

So it does seem to be Mozilla official -- I just must have drawn the 
random test user bean.

This does go to a deeper issue with Firefox and a deeper issue with 
sanitization for the distro. It's a bad look to have a package behave in 
inconsistent ways for your users.

This seems related to the following type entries that shuffle around a 
lot, but should be set to false for the opensuse build.

   browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.xyz  (examples)

  
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.discoverystream.sections.personalization.inferred.enabled
   browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.adsfeed
   browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.inferredpersonalizationfeed
   browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry
   ...
   toolkit.telemetry.server
   ...

Whether this was intended or the Windows side Mozilla just decided to 
apply them to Linux as well -- who knows, but I certainly don't need an 
"...adsfeed" enabled in packages I get from openSUSE.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.