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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by xattt on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:34PM (#36077837)
> To disable this, users need to set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false on the about:config page

How the fuck are you supposed to know about this in advance and prevent this from happening?

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by pessimizer on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:01PM (#36078065)
If you knew about it ahead of time they would have changed it. The point is to show you advertising that you don't want to see.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by ekianjo on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:16PM (#36078176)
look at the source code! Simple!
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by folmar on Friday May 26, 2023 @07:25AM (#36082709)
Usually you would just use one of the common user.js files for fixing firefox, for example https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox
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