1773860 - Provide global long-term "disable all promos" flag

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P2)

Description

[moz-nuc]

Steps to reproduce:

Every few months Firefox adds another promo item that appears somewhere in the UI. Examples:

• Firefox VPN.
• More from Mozilla.
• Firefox Focus.

Actual results:

Every time, a user who doesn't want their browser cross-promoting other products, has to track down yet another about:config key to disable the specific promo item.

They aren't even consistently named.

Examples:

• browser.vpn_promo.enabled
• browser.promo.focus.enabled
• browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla

Expected results:

The user should be able to toggle one flag, e.g. browser.promo.disable_all, and this overrides any/all promo UI items.

Comment 1

[moz-nuc]

Note: I'm using privacy.resistFingerprinting, so the detected Firefox version (91) is wrong; I'm on 101.

Comment 2

[moz-nuc]

This is not specific to Windows 10 or x86 - please update the platform information.

Comment 3

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

I will set this enhancement as new so the engineering team could decide if they take in consideration changing this.

Comment 4

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

NI Product to help triage this feature ask

Comment 5

[Vtay]

Yes. Giving a user to disable in-product messaging promos is something we should work on.

I've created a meta bug the work we should do around it. I have attached this bug to it.