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Network Time Protocol?
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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I think new tab page, but I've never seen it written as ntp
cogwheel in bottom right of the page, untick whatever you don't want to see.
Why do you blame Firefox? It's like blaming the car for how you drive it...
that does not look like a vanilla Firefox. You should not have those ads there. Check out installed extensions
I think it may be vanilla. They add those "thought provoking stories" for users in certain markets based on Pocket. OP should just try disabling all the "show me ads on the homepage" settings and I wager it would all go away.
What part of it doesn't? Besides the massive banner added the bottom of the screen, everything looks like it's the default. That icon in the top-left corner comes preinstalled. The search engine is still the default. The only customization I see here is an extra theme and a couple of add-ons.
You can disable sponsored content in the new tab page in the Firefox settings.
Edit: You can also disable Firefox Studies.
Are you sure this isn't from an extension? Mine doesn't have any ads or even "Thought-provoking stories".
I have seen the "thought provoking stories" on a new FF install I did a couple of days ago, it seems to be the replacement for Pocket stories since that's been removed. You can still remove it in about:preferences#home and uncheck "Recommended stories".
However I have never seen the ad below it either. Not even sure where that's coming from, there is a ... button on the top right of it, I would be tempted to see if that gives any hint where it's coming from.
"thought-provoking stories" has been part of Mozilla's Firefox for a while, originally tied to their Pocket branding. I guess Pocket is dead but sadly not this part of it.
That probably counts as a privileged page, as in something uBlock Origin can't access or modify.
Mozilla has probably been running another "experiment", meaning not every user is affected. In the past they claimed it's not advertisements because they are "continually looking for more ways to say thanks for using Firefox". (Bullshit.) If you go to Settings > Home, you disable anything you don't want to see, or just set your home page to a blank page, period.
You probably downloaded some shitty addon, or installed firefox from the wrong source
you can disable these in about:preferences#home
Crap like this is why I set mine to about:blank
Pretty sure you can disable those by click on the settings wheel visible in the bottom right. Or just use librewolf :)
This is something new. What's under the 3-dot menu? And to cover our bases, can you look through your browsing history to determine where this copy of Firefox came from?