CharmCityCrab
commented
3 years ago Can you can confirm that the only unexpected notification you're seeing sent from Iceraven is to set it as your default browser? Or are there other things?
If the notification is to set it as your default browser, and you decline or swipe it away, does it keep reappearing periodically? Or is it an "ask once" type situation? If it keeps reappearing, how often?
Is anyone who does have Iceraven set as their default browser seeing anything? I do and haven't, but my experience may not be universal.
I'm just trying to nail down exactly what's going on more percisely. Hopefully that will be a step towards a potential resolution.
interfect
bel57
What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?
Firefox has added "marketing" notifications to their Android app, to eg. set Firefox as the default browser, which has also made its way to Iceraven (latest from ffupdater). I find that philosophically objectionable (basically spam or adware) and expect Iceraven's devs to agree, and also think that if I have both browsers installed, both Firefox and Iceraven producing marketing notifications is twice as much spam as one browser. So I think all marketing notifications should be removed (either the notifications themselves removed, a check added to avoid sending all notifications marked as marketing, or the category muted by default).
How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?
I think marketing notifications are annoying and a sign of corruption in Mozilla's culture away from building programs to empower users, towards advertising and PR.
Who will benefit from it?
Users who dislike spam notifications.