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I got the following when I tried the link to subscribe: Thank you for your interest in Firefox Ad-free Internet! This product isn't available yet, but we're w

I got the following when I tried the link to subscribe: Thank you for your interest in Firefox Ad-free Internet! This product isn't available yet, but we're working on it. Would you please click the Next button to take a short survey to tell us what you think? At the end of the survey we'll get your (optional!) e-mail address so that we can let you know when the Firefox Ad-free Internet beta launches. If you don't want to give feedback, click here to skip to the sign-up page. Click the 'Next' button to take the survey.

rusk 7y ago
must be a geo-ip thing ... I got a page offering me this service for $4.99 a month EDIT never mind, once you click through to subscribe it's that survey. This whole thing seems a bit disingenuous ...
- SamWhited 7y ago
  It's one of their trial site things; I doubt they expect people to go directly to it from HN, they expect people to know that these products don't actually exist yet.
  - rusk 7y ago
    It literally says ”Sign up now!”
    - SamWhited 7y ago
      Yes, because it's one of their trial sites. It's supposed to look exactly like the real deal, but not actually work. Normally you'd get to it from a blog post or landing page explaining this.
      - rusk 7y ago
        have you got a link to such a page?
        SamWhited 7y ago
        No, I can't actually find one for this product. I don't know how they announced it, however. It does seem to be the same kind of trial thing they've done in the past though.
        rusk 7y ago
        > I can't actually find one for this I found one for you [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353752
        SamWhited 7y ago
        I didn't get that, was it supposed to be a joke? That's not a Mozilla page. It's normally a blog post or something, but it could have been an email newsletter too or similar.
        rusk 7y ago
        It's a Kite, plain and simple https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20354115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20354115
        SamWhited 7y ago
        Ah, I see, I misunderstood; thanks, I didn't know there was a term for this!
lol768 7y ago
If you skip the survey you end up on scroll.com: > Thank you for participating in this survey! We would like to invite you to a free trial of Firefox Ad-free Internet, a name we used in this survey for a partnership with our friends at Scroll. You can sign up today at www.scroll.com Thank you very much for helping to make the internet a better place!
- SanchoPanda 7y ago
  That clarifies it quite a bit for me, thank you.

rusk 7y ago

must be a geo-ip thing ... I got a page offering me this service for $4.99 a month EDIT never mind, once you click through to subscribe it's that survey. This whole thing seems a bit disingenuous ...

SamWhited 7y ago
It's one of their trial site things; I doubt they expect people to go directly to it from HN, they expect people to know that these products don't actually exist yet.
- rusk 7y ago
  It literally says ”Sign up now!”
  - SamWhited 7y ago
    Yes, because it's one of their trial sites. It's supposed to look exactly like the real deal, but not actually work. Normally you'd get to it from a blog post or landing page explaining this.
    - rusk 7y ago
      have you got a link to such a page?
      - SamWhited 7y ago
        No, I can't actually find one for this product. I don't know how they announced it, however. It does seem to be the same kind of trial thing they've done in the past though.
        rusk 7y ago
        > I can't actually find one for this I found one for you [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353752
        SamWhited 7y ago
        I didn't get that, was it supposed to be a joke? That's not a Mozilla page. It's normally a blog post or something, but it could have been an email newsletter too or similar.
        rusk 7y ago
        It's a Kite, plain and simple https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20354115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20354115
        SamWhited 7y ago
        Ah, I see, I misunderstood; thanks, I didn't know there was a term for this!

lol768 7y ago

If you skip the survey you end up on scroll.com: > Thank you for participating in this survey! We would like to invite you to a free trial of Firefox Ad-free Internet, a name we used in this survey for a partnership with our friends at Scroll. You can sign up today at www.scroll.com Thank you very much for helping to make the internet a better place!

SanchoPanda 7y ago
That clarifies it quite a bit for me, thank you.