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The FIFA countdown is just Phase 1: Mozilla working on full-fledged sports widget (media.piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by XLE@piefed.social to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/firefox/p/2092438/the-fifa-countdown-is-just-phase-1-mozilla-working-on-full-fledged-sports-widget

Spotted on Mozilla's bug tracker:

[meta] Homepage Sports Widget

Where it turns out the countdown widget was part of a broader plan to add a different permanent widget:

Web calls will apparently be providing

  • SportsMatch
  • SportsTeam
  • MatchStatus
  • TournamentPhase

You can also expect a popup on the Desktop that advertises World Cup wallpapers.

The Phase 1 wallpapers and widget remind me of 2017 when 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."

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[–] ilqqe@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

Yet more bullshit nobody asked for.

[–] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

Shrugs in Waterfox.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Great timing Mozilla, go all in on the world cup nobody cares about.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Hey, some of us care a negative amount! The only FIFA content I want to see is shit being thrown at their corrupt leaders.

[–] martini1992@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As long as I can turn it off.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Turn them off.

This Sports thing is two switches (FIFA timer, sports widget) plus a nag popup. Per install. Per profile.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But why is it turned on by default in the first place?

[–] martini1992@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because if it was disabled by default nobody would know it existed. If they added popups to tell people about it they'd get flak for that. They just want to have "cool" things to bring the normies in I suppose.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I understand that might have been their reasoning. But of they force it on us without notice, then they should get even more flak. They want to attract whoever likes that, so they annoy their whole user base (plus those of us using Firefox forks).

[–] martini1992@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

IMO it's a fairly minor annoyance. Though I think if the forks allow a feature into their codebase and they wanted to disable by default they could, so that's on them. If you use a fork where that's the case then maybe emailing them to say these features should be disabled by default or even not merged at all would be more productive.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Imagine using non-profit funds for developing a browser to actually improve the browser.