topic Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus? in Firefox Labs

Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

PoopDestroyer69 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:12:29 GMT

I think we all knew this kind of crap was coming sooner or later. We need to **bleep** this before the toilet becomes clogged.

You see the attached image? That is an advert. You know it's an advert, you're not stupid. I've just removed it from my history AND my bookmarks menus, yet it remains here, taking up the space of 4-5 menu items. It's designed to draw my attention and manipulate me into doing something that I otherwise wouldn't have bothered to do. I don't want to sign into my web browser, why would I do that? That doesn't sound like something a reasonable man would do.

It's not an option, there are options underneath it - this one is an advert. Remove it. If I wanted to see adverts, I'd use Chrome or Edge.

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

PoopDestroyer69 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:13:10 GMT

Bleep? Is "N i p" a bad word now?

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

Agentvirtuel — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:01:48 GMT

Hello

https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/thema/140892-zum-synchronisieren-anmelden-ausblenden

https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/thema/140892-zum-synchronisieren-anmelden-ausblenden/?postID=1293543#post1293543

I tested userChrome.css, it works.

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

PoopDestroyer69 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:23:19 GMT

Thanks, this helps to remove the issue, although for what it's worth I would also like Mozilla to stop doing this, because it's only going to get worse from here.

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

orderofthetriad — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:36:53 GMT

you got a solution for that in the language we are currently using? Firefox doesn't translate text when you have ai features turned off (hostile behavior, translation tech long predates ai), which i do. Where is this code supposed to go, i'm not a tech expert, I'm just a pissed off firefox user who hates obvious dark patterns and SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO ANY OF THIS BECAUSE MOZILLA NEVER SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED IN THE FIRST PLACE IT IF THEY WANTED TO KEEP THEIR USERS.

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

orderofthetriad — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:37:44 GMT

found the about:config solution turn "identity.fxaccounts.enabled" to false and restart browser.

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

Agentvirtuel — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:59:28 GMT

Hello

I tested

identity.fxaccounts.enabled false and restart Firefox.
Access and identify to my account is no longer possible.
identity.fxaccounts.enabled true and restart Firefox.
Access and identify to my account is possible.

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

orderofthetriad — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:00:55 GMT

Cool, maybe that's not a solution for YOU, but for whomever doesn't want to USE AN ACCOUNT ON FIREFOX, it is the solution, as getting rid of the accounts feature WAS ENTIRELY MY INTENTION. I don't know why YOU needed to test it if YOU have a firefox account that you use and as such aren't being asked to log into an account you don't have and don't want through dark pattern banners! What is you angle here, dude?

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

Agentvirtuel — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:28:41 GMT

For illustration userChrome.css
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJF6i0OsEXA

Re: Can you stop putting adverts in the menus?

LepidopteraMega — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:03:32 GMT

At the very least, the banner should be available as a config setting. Separate to the config setting for user accounts. For the use-case where people want the option of signing in, without the banner

Or better yet, the least a banner can do is have an X in the corner that instantly and permanently disables it
Like most of the feature signposting in Firefox