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aragilar on May 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over...

No, it was a trademark issue, raised by Mozilla (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622) and seemingly resolved on their (Mozilla's) end (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006). For what it's worth, the recent Rust trademark issue seems to be of a similar vein (and the justifications around the Firefox sound like those used in Rust).

account42 on May 30, 2023 | [–]

Can you provide any evidence that the User Agent name was a trademark issue. As in the name exposed to websites. Because that is the only thing that matters here and also where everyone claims to be a variant of Mozilla for compatibility.

PrimeMcFly on May 26, 2023 | [–]

Thanks for clarifying!

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