Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen (feddit.nl)

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Just know I saw this, because I would never ever visit freaking groupon. “Sponsored shortcuts” can be disabled in the settings . Bleh :(

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

If you're on Android, just go to about:config and disable browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored and browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites. Or use a Mull, a hardened version for Firefox for Android, which disables this by default.

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