Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Groxx on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:39PM (#36079103)

>I’m not sure why after all the crap they have pulled over the years.

Have you seen the competition?

It may be disturbingly similar to trying to vote for a decent politician, but there are absolutely degrees of badness.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by adastra22 on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:47AM (#36080469)

Brave seems to work just fine for me, and gets out of the way.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Karunamon on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:12PM (#36088978)

Yes. Brave does a demonstrably better job at protecting my privacy and not making unwarranted connections to third parties I did not ask for.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by aqfamnzc on Saturday May 27, 2023 @12:17AM (#36092033)

How can you guys ever trust Brave again after the whole affiliate link injection nonsense?

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Groxx on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:12PM (#36097813)

Link injection, ad replacement, their own cryptocurrency... It's close to getting bingo on the questionable behavior card.

Not to claim it's worse, of course. Chrome practically has the whole card filled in, and has to add extensions for the new terrible things they've invented. They're playing multi-dimensional 7x9x3i bingo.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Karunamon on Sunday May 28, 2023 @09:03AM (#36103640)

The same way people trust Mozilla after the whole fake promotional add-on nonsense. Actually I have to give Brave the W here too: they appear capable of learning from their mistakes. Mozilla just keeps doing shady shit over and over and over again.

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