Creepy world cup widgets as a part of firefox?

[fro_do]

Cut this crap out.

I won’t tolerate ads like this in my open-source browser. And I sure as hell won’t have it making requests to some unknown API. Firefox is a privacy-first browser - not Chrome, not Edge, not some corporate spyware. Fix this now, please!

If anyone wants that creepy Donald Trump Word Cup nonsense, they can install a Firefox extension or another browser. But it has no place in Firefox itself!!!

[AngryOldQNerd]

I actually had no idea this existed, because my new tabs are and have always been blank. I kinda feel bad that this affects ad revenue, but then again I actually purchased Netscape 1.0 on a floppy disk at a retail store and I'd be more than happy to just do that again (well, maybe not the floppy disk) rather than go the ad route. I've always viewed a browser as a door to the online world, and the modern way is to basically be bum-rushed by the world as soon as you open it. No thanks.