Mozilla VPN popup = poor OOBE

mozilla / multi-account-containers

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

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Mozilla VPN popup = poor OOBE #2589

Open szmarczak opened 8 months ago

szmarczak commented 8 months ago

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[X] I updated to the latest version of Multi-Account Container and tested if I can reproduce the issue
[X] I searched for existing reports to see if it hasn't already been reported

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The web is flooded with cookie consent popups. There has been backlash. Mozilla seems to follow a similar route by throwing Mozilla VPN everywhere possible. Having a slide in the onboarding slides is enough, don't force people people to say "no". Make it opt-in, not opt-out (don't force people to interact with popups). If you really insist on having a popup about Mozilla VPN make it so that it doesn't obstruct the actual view underneath.

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ieure commented 8 months ago

Agreed. I instantly uninstalled this extension because of it bombarding me with ads.

The model here seems to be to nerf the built-in container support, then lock full functionality away in a confusingly-similarly named extension that tries to upsell you Mozilla's VPN.

I don't think much of that.

jimrs commented 8 months ago

agreed, though noone at the corporation cares. the people at the mozilla corp know very well what they are doing. the managers need their powerpoint presentations where a green number will say "mozilla vpn users increased". removing the annoying services suggestions (vpn, relay, pocket, the homepage suggestions, the "features" recommendations that you have to opt out of) would mean red numbers. simple as. as always, it is up to the users to fix the problems.

klint commented 7 months ago

Just click on the check box to remove that part and go back to your life... Or fund Mozilla with some millions to avoid the need of a VPN and all those features that you find annoying...