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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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