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Excuse me, but what the f#@£? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by 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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[–] 136 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (20 children)

settings > homepage > shortcuts > uncheck 'sponsored shortcuts'

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    I think people need to appreciate that Mozilla is probably the only company in the world that will allow you to turn off ads like this, for free.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Ah hahahaha no. That's not even close to true. Do we seriously need to mention the dozens of alternative web browsers out there?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There are not dozens of alternative browsers. There is Chromium, Safari, and Firefox, with a few niche options that aren't really production ready yet and may never be. The "variety" you speak of is just Chromium in lots of disguises.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    And here, my friend, you forgot what OP was posting about. Let me refresh your memory. Built in advertising. They don't like it. So ... even if we ignore the dozens of non-Chromium non-Firefox based browsers on the market, like you did for no good reason, OP could still solve their problem by using one of these derivatives.

    Facts and logic, together!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    So condescending for no good reason...

    Anyway, I didn't forget. I just pointed out that we have an illusion of choice, and that a lot of people who use Firefox do so, at least in part, to fight the Google monoculture.

    As for your claim that there are dozens of alternative browser engines on the market, you're going to have to provide some evidence for me to take that seriously. And remember I was limiting the scope to browsers that could feasibly be used as a daily driver for the modern web, not some pet project that crashes when you try to load DoorDash.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Opt-out is still toxic

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah but Firefox doesn't get their income like google does

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but it doesn't change that it's sh*t. It's no justification

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    How do you mean its not justificatin? If noone is paying you would you still go to work?

    If we want firefox to be good again we need to pay for it, or rather give some symbolic amount that will be huge for them because there are tousent of people using firefox.

    Even thou they are losing users for years and now hawe only a relativly small procent of world populacion. Which is bad because people dont understand that firefox is open source and chrome is proprietery.

    And dont even understand what open source means.. Thats why we are in situacion like this where google is controling everything…

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I turn everything off in Firefox’s new page except search! I always found the news stuff distracting too.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    You should be able to turn off "web search" too if you go to the page mentioned in the parent comment.

    (Note the Edit icon in the corner of the homepage does not give you all the options. It used to let you turn off sponsored content, but Mozilla removed that a couple versions ago.)

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