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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by asdff on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:23PM (#36079425)
I'm using firefox and I don't ever see this sort of stuff people complain about. Where does it even appear? I have new tab set to blank page. Are people leaving new tab at default with suggested content?

At the end of the day firefox is a last refuge of a browser that allows me to block tracking and ads. As long as ublock origin works here and nowhere else this is the browser that I will be using. It's that simple, the internet is just too unusable without ad blocking.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by DangitBobby on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:30AM (#36080350)
I was incredibly surprised today while checking my gmail to see a modal with a darkened background pop-up to cover the entire web page. It was an ad for Mozilla VPN. I did some googling to find out if it was a gmail ad or a FireFox ad but didn't find anything until the bug report was shared here.
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