purebrowser: Home screen advertises Firefox brand with links to Mozilla addons service
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PureBrowser Home screen (about:home) bubbles up after some time one of the following texts:

Thanks for choosing Firefox! To get the most out of your browser, learn more about the latest features

...where the last part links to Firefox features page on mozilla.com.

It's easy to customize your Firefox exactly the way you want it. Choose from thousands of add-ons.

...where second sentence links to featured add-ons on addons.mozilla.org which includes non-libre add-ons (see T299).

The bubbling effect seems to potentially fetch additional advertisement texts from Mozilla domain, which (if true) leaks user activities to Mozilla.

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T268 firefox-esr: leaks data to third-parties
Open	None	T299 [multipe issues] firefox-esr: promotes upstream-distributed addons
Wontfix	jonas.smedegaard	T147 Rework purebrowser packaging
Wontfix	jonas.smedegaard	T536 purebrowser - references "Firefox" and "Mozilla" leading to confusion
Duplicate	jonas.smedegaard	T532 purebrowser: Home screen advertises Firefox brand with links to Mozilla addons service

jonas.smedegaard updated the task description. (Show Details)

This issue is solved since release 52.9.0esr-1pureos3, uploaded to landing today July 8th.

(keeping this issue open until release has entered green and this issue is confirmed fixed)