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Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What's next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type "McDonald's" before I can actually navigate there?
Personaly those shortcuts are a feature I literally never use so much so I don't even register their existence anymore.
I thought you said "What's next, a few ads in the URL bar?" ...because Mozilla has put a few ads in the URL bar.
Was trying to reference this
Maybe I should have added a paragraph somewhere in there. I was typing fast because I only get so much time on my break at work.
Ads are one thing, but this seems excessive and probably unintentional. Looks like someone just filed this bug, which is another sign that it might be an unintentional problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944704
How do you get this? My home page just has some recent links
Fresh install.
on mobile, too, it looks like. on pc, i've only ever seen half that many, plus google pops in there if you switch your search default. click-dismiss and they're gone. toggle a couple settings, done. they don't come back.
This is the same garbage we condemn Windows for, though. It's still not okay.
This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.
The best thing about this is that you can turn it off
Honestly, I don't care. I don't even look at that stuff, I just type in the bar thing what I want. Mozilla has to fund the project somehow.
someone on lemmy has a bit of a hateboner for mozilla.
Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.
There are some more privacy friendly forks of "Firefox for Android", which have sponsored shortcuts disabled or minimized by default. For example:
Feel free to give them a try :)
@UltraGiGaGigantic Sorry about that, not quite what is expected to happen. I understand that it has been looked into and has now been resolved.
I think the best viable option for them is to either offer a subscription model. Or increase requests for donations.
Don't give them any ideas
Why is this an issue ??
Meanwhile Let's discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)