Disable Firefox VPN ads

ghost commented 2 years ago

Disables a banner ad in the Protections Dashboard page, and a (newly added) pop-up ad which shows up in private browsing.

Please let me know if something needs to be changed.

nodiscc commented 11 months ago

These settings do nothing for me (Firefox ESR 102, Debian).

From the pref naming, I guess browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl is about blocking VPN ads on the new tab page? But I cannot see such ads at all, even with the pref set to its default (https://vpn.mozilla.org/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-%CHANNEL%-browser&utm_campaign=private-browsing-vpn-link)
From the pref naming, I guess that browser.contentblocking.report.hide_vpn_banner is supposed to hide the VPN banner which I see on the about:protections page:

But changing this pref to true does nothing for me. However setting browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false makes it disappear. Maybe we should start there, better document what each setting does, and see if some VPN ads remain?

Anyway, duplicate of https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/pull/532, one of these PRs should be closed (or both).

/cc @pyllyukko

nodiscc commented 11 months ago

PR https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/pull/543 created which should disable all VPN-related ads, with references/documentation.

pyllyukko / user.js

Disable Firefox VPN ads #531