1455814 - Firefox Beta shows an advertisement for Pocket in a notification, even with the spam notifications setting turned off

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1454686

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

The advertisement reads "Slowpokes, stress, and Sriracha. Read about these and other trending topics at Pocket on Firefox."

In the settings, under Notifications, I have the single option "What's new in Firefox Beta" turned off. I'm insulted not only that someone has disregarded my express wish not to be spammed about new features, but that they've included asinine trending topics in the advertisement as well. Also "at Pocket on Firefox" is awful; it contains no meaningful information. At least simplify it to "in Mozilla Pocket", which at least makes sense.

I have Firefox Beta 60.0b5 installed; the build id is 20180319175655.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

That setting controls something different [1], but in any case what you want should be covered by bug 1454686.

[1] Although I'm not sure if those "What's new" notifications were actually ever really used - I can't remember having ever seen one of those. It's possible that that settings option was introduced for some future feature that was subsequently never really implemented?

Comment 2

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

@Daniel, indeed that setting you toggled off refers to another functionality, which should be covered by bug 1454686.


@JanH from what I saw the "What's New..." feature is implemented and should work
by showing a local notification when our app is updated (package replaced)
which when touched would take the user to the release notes page for that just installed version.

That existing toggle in notification settings should control whether the user should be presented with the "what's new" notification or not.
Is just that this feature is based on an experiment which is effectively stopped (available to 0 users as per SwitchBoard) but the app is not checking to remove that settings entry.

Comment 3

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

Just created bug 1456110 to handle hiding the notification settings when they would produce no effect.