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Excuse me, but what the f#@£?
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settings > homepage > shortcuts > uncheck 'sponsored shortcuts'
Opt-out is still toxic
Yeah but Firefox doesn't get their income like google does
They get it from Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They will never compete with Google by adding ads to the browser. I pay for Kagi, I would pay for Firefox too, but I guess most people wont.
Yeah but it doesn't change that it's sh*t. It's no justification
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…
Guessing you donate to Mozilla monthly?
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.
Low friggin' bar.
Yet one so many competitors fail to clear.
Low bar, but that's how far our options have sunk.
Ah hahahaha no. That's not even close to true. Do we seriously need to mention the dozens of alternative web browsers out there?
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.
I turn everything off in Firefox’s new page except search! I always found the news stuff distracting too.
that's typically what i do but on desktop i turn off search too since a) i use the awesomebar primarily and b) my ntp is a background and i'd rather see that for a cleaner look :)
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.)
Thankies....you solved a problem I didn't know I had