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

On 6/26/26 1:42 PM, Knurpht wrote:
> I don't understand all the fuz. Go Settings - Startpage - Widgets, enable/
> disable at will. To be honest, I think a lot of the FF users (like some
> friends that do like football) are in the "don't mind / appreciate it"
> -spectrum. Some people like no widgets, some weather and so on. If openSUSE
> would they could eliminate the widget functionality, Than others would have to
> go throughabout:config. Those who don't want the widgets can easily disable
> them( (ike I did btw)..

The fuz is there are no settings that control this. In my new tab 
settings, I have "weather" enabled only. Everything is disabled and I 
still get this.

You have to pick thought about:config to find where Mozilla is 
activating and pulling in this stuff that shouldn't be in a distro 
package. Telling is I just disabled all the world cup adware in FF 151, 
you can see those two entries marked as highlighted in the screenshot I 
provided. The two new endpoints for the world cup promo now have to be 
disabled in 152. It has become a game of whack-a-mole to disable this 
adware and it should not be.

As I previously said, I'm all form Mozilla doing this in packages you 
download from mozilla.org/pub/, but openSUSE shouldn't be packaging adware.

openSUSE has a policy against packaging ads, firefox is no longer in 
compliance with that policy.

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