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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by musicale on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:42PM (#36117273)
> Look in about:config ... it is indeed disturbingly large and the majority of them aren't officially documented either.

It really is an insane situation. What is up with Firefox's stealth anti-privacy and spammy marketing features controlled by hidden, undocumented settings that are set to (violate privacy and spam me) by default?

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by account42 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:28AM (#36125269)
What's up is that Firefox is not an open source project (the source is open, the project is not) and Mozilla is an advertisement company. The ad slot is the default search engine and you are the product being sold to Google. This is how advertisement companies behave. They don't care about you. They collect all the data they can, legally or not.
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