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Excuse me, but what the f#@£? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Firefox app on android. Never seen this before until today. But Firefox is now putting ads in the app?

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 151 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think those have been there since forever?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 31 points 4 months ago

Pretty much

[–] Tug@kbin.earth 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This should be towards the top. I've been on FF4A for years now and they've had those links there the whole time. You can toggle them off if yku don't want them.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

how many people see that page tho? when i open a new tab i don't even see the page, I open new pages quite often, all i see is the address bar until i type and hit enter. never even saw the "sponsored content"

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You must have changed an option, by default the page shows up every time you open a new tab. (Though you can disable the ads on it)

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I have wonderful tunnel vision. I opened a new tab and actually looked at the page and they do in fact exist, I have 3 sponsored links, I just never actually look at the page until i hit enter cause there is nothing of interest til then hehe

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The default search engine being google is a much worse offence imo, but somehow people dont complain about that.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

That's the one thing keeping Firefox (and all it's forks) afloat.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

You can literrally change that with just a few clicks. It takes a few seconds...

But I guess you don't like that great software costs money to develop, so you will start using those alternatives that wouldn't exist, if it were not for Mozilla/Firefox... Make that make sense!

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Duck Duck Go through Firefox for years now.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Me too, but its surely still a decision that has much worse of an impact on the average non techie user than a random little bookmark thats even easier to remove.