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?
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Can’t you remove those?
If we want software to be FOSS we have to stop bitching so much about developers trying to make the math work.
The browser itself is free, and they have to make money somehow to keep the company running (if the CEO didn’t keep most of it for themself). If you don’t like it, you can turn it off or download an ad-free fork.
Breaking news: Businesses need to make money, more at 11
Yeah but you can literally just turn this off with no fuss.
1.Firefox for Android.
2.Tap the menu button.
3.Tap. Settings.
4.Tap Homepage.
5.Deselect Sponsored shortcuts under Shortcuts.
Why is this an issue ??
Meanwhile Let’s discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)
This was a bug
And looks like it’s been fixed :)
The best thing about this is that you can turn it off
Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.
So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?
This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.
someone one lemmy has a bit of hateboner for mozilla.
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.
Then turn it off?
Also, I rarely use Firefox on my phone and my links are still all from websites I’ve visited.
Don’t give them any ideas
