Wow, that’s awesome! I was very sad without the clickbait articles. I was staring at Firefox thinking “i wish it had a cluttered start page with clickbait articles and sponsored content like MS Edge” - and then with this new update the devs nailed it! Thanks!
That’s really perfect!
Virkkunen ( @Virkkunen@fedia.io ) 30•4 days agoFor the “just turn it off” folk, you know what’s even better than that? Not having ads at all in the first place.
ssm ( @ssm@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•4 days ago“just turn it off” until they update firefox and add in new spyware/adware tucked away in about:config you won’t notice until all your data has been mined
firewood010 ( @firewood010@lemmy.zip ) 5•4 days agoThat’s a bit slippery, but they sure are abusing our trust in the brand for this one.
katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•4 days agothen get people to do a monthly donation to mozilla and thunderbird…
ssm ( @ssm@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•4 days agoYou think I want to financially support Mozilla with that blackmailers logic? Support qtwebengine devs, qtwebkit devs, netsurf devs, or gtkwebkit devs; or anyone that doesn’t stick malware in their open source browser for profit.
katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•4 days agomalware
absolutely bonkers
As is turning Firefox into a subscription service!
I wouldn’t mind a paid premium that came with some cool themes or something of that nature, but this path ends with enshittification and nothing else.
kbal ( @kbal@fedia.io ) 36•5 days agoMaybe more people will join me in thinking that the best thing to do is to set browser.newtabpage.enabled=false and otherwise fiddle with the settings until it just shows you nothing but a blank page in a nice colour when you open a new tab or window.
thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 20•5 days agoI just have an empty new tab page. There is no need to use about:config to set this setting. The Firefox > Settings > Home the homepage for new windows or new tabs separately. At least the recent activity for Visited pages is useful for new window. I highly recommend to Sponsored Shortcuts, which is an alternative term for advertisement. Or just turn off the Firefox Home for newtabs by setting it to Blank Page.
乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ ( @electro1@infosec.pub ) 2•5 days agoSponsored Shortcuts, which is an alternative term for advertisement
That’s simply incorrect, Sponsored Shortcuts work differently than ads, in the later you’re tracked and your PII gathered.
thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 9•5 days agoI wasn’t talking about the technical implementation or differences in how they are handled, but more of a personal judgement. To me every Sponsored link is an advertisement, everywhere, not only in Firefox.
Baggins ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) English8•5 days agoJust turn them off in settings. Lots of options there, no need to sod around with configs and what have you.
Tyoda ( @Tyoda@lemm.ee ) 5•5 days agoThis is part of my new setup ritual right along uBlock, DDG, and more. Shame that this is the best choice we have for a browser.
Tywele ( @Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 26•5 days agoJust turn them off?
Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English9•5 days agoIt has to be one of the easiest things I’ve ever turned off. It’s not like I’m mucking with registry settings, it’s literally a toggle
firewood010 ( @firewood010@lemmy.zip ) 2•4 days agoOt let people opt-in if it is truly something great to have. Why put something on one wants there to “let people turn it off”?
Tywele ( @Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•4 days agoBecause they want to make money with that and if it’s opt in they might as well not put it in at all.
thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 25•5 days agoAt Firefox > Settings > Home turn off Sponsored Shortcuts.
InstallGentoo ( @InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip ) 13•5 days agoUpdate? Hasn’t stuff like this always been there?
It changed my setting from disabled to enabled after the update
FuzzyRedPanda ( @Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ) English1•4 days agoThat’s not cool at all.
LWD ( @LWD@lemm.ee ) 1•5 days agoSponsored suggestions in the address bar and advertisement telemetry are upcoming additions, but yeah, this stuff in this post has been here for a while. Every installation requires you remove it again.
LWD ( @LWD@lemm.ee ) 9•5 days agoI just touched Windows 11 for the first time today.
The Start bar has a Widgets corner, which includes a helpful weather display but is 99% infinite news scroll.
I opened Edge to download something else, and was greeted with more news and crap.
Don’t get me wrong, Firefox is better than Edge. But Edge is the worst of the bunch by far.
Despite its reputation, Chrome looks and feels like, and in some ways is, a lighter browser. No news feed. No AI chatbot. I get that they can afford it, but the difference is still painfully palpable.
omg i cannot state how much i hate the widgets bar, it’s like they designed it on purpose to show ads&clickbait
hitmyspot ( @hitmyspot@aussie.zone ) 2•4 days agoThey did. It ibky has weather so you allow location.
Delusion6903 ( @Delusion6903@discuss.online ) English4•4 days agoLet them find a better way to finance development than Google search. I’ll just go downstream to Librewolf. It’s a win/win.
JSens1998 ( @JSens1998@lemmy.ml ) 2•3 days agoHaha, LibreWolf and Floorp go brrr
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 4•5 days agoFinally some dumb tracked advertising again!
user ( @user@lemmy.one ) 2•5 days agoOr you could use mullvad browser which is kind of the same thing. And not need to deal with this.