submitted 4 months ago by turdas@suppo.fi to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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This is the third avenue of FIFA World Cup advertising I've had to block in Firefox for Android (two different home page ads and now this notification), and my patience is starting to run thin.

Are there good mobile browser alternatives that support the same extension Firefox does (in my case, uBlock, SponsorBlock and Video Background Play Fix)?

Also, and I imagine the answer to this is "no", do those alternatives support the sync features of Firefox? I actually use and quite like those.

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[-] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

There are plenty of Firefox forks in the F-Droid store. I use Fennec which natively supports everything you mentioned.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or Ironfox. I installed Ironfox after Fennec recently shit the bed and didn't work at all. It's good, too.

[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 12 points 4 months ago

Mozilla: "Firefox is losing millions of users"

Also Mozilla: "let's alienate our most loyal users with World Cup ads in Firefox!"

FFS guys.

[-] liinux@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure how Firefox can know the difference between a loyal and casual user, but if such thing even exist it doesn't matter to Mozilla.

Let's be real, how many % of the browser market is owned Firefox? 3%? Loyal users would be like 0.5% or even less.

They care about money (and is fine, they need it to maintain the project) and attracting new casual users, and this is the kind of thing that do both: Not sure if FIFA sponsored Mozilla but looks like, and casual people will open Firefox just to see the World Cup results

And even so, you can just turn it off, I guess

[-] doleo@lemmy.one 2 points 4 months ago

And Ai, don’t forget the ai. Really sad directions being taken by literally the only chrome alternative browser.

[-] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Settings > Homepage Turn the switch to off.

[-] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Does Mozilla get paid by Fifa for this?

Also I have Fennec from f-droid and haven't received anything world cup related

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've been getting them in Android auto and want to know how to disable that shit also. (Unrelated to Firefox)

Couldn't give less of a fuck about who scored a goal.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ironfox https://ironfoxoss.org/

[-] solxix@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

IronFox

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Get Fennec or IronFox, they're Firefox forks so you get all the extensions you're used to minus the BS.

[-] Kristof12@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

fifa ads everywhere, quite a pain

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