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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by PrimeMcFly on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:06PM (#36078094)
I'm guessing that was because Debian refused/wasn't able to sue the Firefox branding and they extended that to the user agent. So a ton of sites just saw Iceweasel as the UA and broke because it was unexpected.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by mattl on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:10PM (#36078130)
Yeah I’m surprised more forks don’t have this issue. Maybe they’re too small for Mozilla to care.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by lolinder on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:12PM (#36079353)
LibreWolf isn't strictly a fork of Firefox, it's a preconfigured installation that locks things down and disables anti-features. So it's strictly accurate to use the Firefox user agent, because that's what actually gets compiled.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by PrimeMcFly on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:51PM (#36079628)
Wasn't the issue with the Iceweasel UA purely on Debian's end, them not like or agreeing to the Firefox terms? I don't think most forks would have that issue
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by aragilar on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:53AM (#36081306)
No, it was a trademark issue, raised by Mozilla (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622) and seemingly resolved on their (Mozilla's) end (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006). For what it's worth, the recent Rust trademark issue seems to be of a similar vein (and the justifications around the Firefox sound like those used in Rust).
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by PrimeMcFly on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:19AM (#36081857)
Thanks for clarifying!
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by account42 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:05PM (#36126506)
Can you provide any evidence that the User Agent name was a trademark issue. As in the name exposed to websites. Because that is the only thing that matters here and also where everyone claims to be a variant of Mozilla for compatibility.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by aragilar on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:55AM (#36081312)
Mozilla apparently fixed this (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006) so it sounds like forks don't have that issue now?
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