WTF? Do you see this as well?

  • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    614·
    1 month ago

    can we stop shoving sports into everyone’s faces? I live in brazil and is so fucking annoying to hear about yet a fucking another sports news

    I hate this expectation people impose onto me and everyone that they should care and magically be enthusiastic about it

    • CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      Youre in brazil wtf do you expect lol every country boasts about their countries achievements in sports. I do get your point because most of my life i wasnt into sports and everyone else was into soccer heavily so i felt left out and not normal about it but idk

    • vapor_body@lemmy.ml
      332·
      1 month ago

      Dude come on soccer is like the only sport that’s not high-falutin bullshit for most of the globe maybe we could reach out to the devs and explain how this feels to everyone during an ongoing genocide ;_;

  • vapor_body@lemmy.ml
    441·
    1 month ago

    Look, this sucks, FIFA is a shitty organization, but it’s possible that the devs are just soccer fanatics. You think Mexicans are boycotting FIFA for instance? They probably mistakenly believed this was apolitical

    • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zipEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      hey, also make sure it isn’t set to delete everything it’s ever downloaded when you clear your history. This setting is enabled by default now! Wtf is happening at Mozilla?

      I think that part is just a misunderstanding, the setting simply defines what to do when you delete a download from the downloads page. Clearing your history does not affect you downloads

  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    22·
    1 month ago

    The World Cup used to be something that people actually looked forward to with a kind of simple joy. Before, say, 2018, this kind of countdown would have been useful information to me.

    I think this is someone who misread the mood of their users to FIFA not paid placement.

    Why would FIFA give a shit about Firefox users anyway? 😆

    • Tinks@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      Agreed. Back when FIFA announced that the US was going to get another world cup I was over the moon and thought for sure my husband and I would go to at least one game, and that was before the host cities were announced. (At that point we were season ticket holders for our local MLS club as well.) I live in a host city, so going wouldn’t be even mildly inconvenient, but not only am I not, I don’t even plan to watch the cup. 12 and 16 years ago I was watching every single game, even streaming them on my phone while at work. Not that FIFA was a bastion of morality even then, but I feel like it’s gotten so much worse, and supporting the games in any way just rubs me wrong. I’m also not happy helping this administration get a win of any kind, so I’ll just catch on Lemmy who wins and call it good enough.

      • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        8·
        1 month ago

        In 2010 the entire office shut down, people were projecting games on sheets hung up in the cafeteria, two of my engineers were dutch so the whole team went to go watch one of the games to support them, and nobody even thought about trying to stop it.

        It was a multinational company and it gave everybody something to talk about and even the people who didn’t care about the games often went along for the drama.

        And that’s dead dead dead.

        My kid asked me yesterday “why does everything just keep getting shittier?”

      • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        6·
        1 month ago

        I used to work at Google before it sucked and this was exactly the kind of thing the search team used to build info boxes for, just cause they knew people would want to know.

        Like, there was a time when that company genuinely wanted to be helpful and informative.

        I still have room in my heart to believe that people are still enthusiastic soccer fans, even if I’m not any more.

        But yeah could also just be monetization.

    • tb_@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      I love FOSS projects where there isn’t a single picture or anything to be found on the main page. I just want to see what I’m getting into before I click download.

      • Griffus@lemmy.zip
        3·
        1 month ago

        I get what you mean and agree, but this is the absolutely most recommended Android browser I’ve seen since going coming on Lemmy and also on deGoogle communities elsewhere, and was my go to browser until I left Googles Android. Can recommend.

    • jumponboard@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Nice. Thx! Is that the spiritual successor to mull? Mull was the greatest android browser, a hardened fennec fork.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    13·
    1 month ago

    I did see that and was wtf about it. And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”? Give it a break, Mozilla. Ok I’ll turn off the experiments before they start injecting AI slop into pages.

    Added: there appears to be no way to turn off all the experiments permanently. You can only change them one at a time, and sometimes it’s unclear which setting turns the experiment off. In most there is a “control” setting and one or more “treatment” settings, where “control” presumably means off. FIFA is an experiment all by itself. Sheesh.

    • Ilumar@lemmy.zip
      4·
      1 month ago

      Go to Settings -> About Firefox/Fennec

      Tap the logo until it says “Debug settings enabled”

      Go back and enter the new “Secret Settings” menu. There you can turn off Nimbus and Labs permanently. Also toggle “Keep Debug Menu revealed” so you don’t have to enable it every time you want to change something.

      • solrize@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 month ago

        Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I’ll see if it happens again.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”?

      Not new, believe it or not. In 2017 they rolled out the creepiest experiment possible and then apologized with language that would be at home today.

      “Although we always have the best intentions, not everything that we try works as we want,” said Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla’s chief marketing officer… “This was not a paid promotion but rather a collaboration that was intended to be fun.”

  • CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    91·
    1 month ago

    Who cares? Billions of people enjoy the world cup, whats wrong with a little timer? I think its fun that they added this idk also if fifa did pay mozilla for this it just wouldnt make any sense no? 2% use firefox while majority use chrome, why would fifa pay mozilla and not chrome? They clearly have enough to advertise on chrome. I think its the devs appealing to people who enjoy world cup

  • ctry21@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    1 month ago

    Yep, came with the AI update yesterday for me on Fennec. Wish they would leave Fennec as the no-bullshit version as it should be.