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?
Either that or they go bankrupt. Design your own browser and give it out for free if you don't like it
A for profit company is not a charity
Their profit motive is capped by their only shareholder being a non-profit.
Whether it's for profit or charity. It can't accomplish its goals without financing.
Why is this an issue ??
Meanwhile Let's discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)
I thought you said "What's next, a few ads in the URL bar?" ...because Mozilla has put a few ads in the URL bar.
How do you get this? My home page just has some recent links
Depending on where you got Firefox from, default settings are different. Maybe your distro ships with these deactivated.
Yep. I get it from Librewolf. 😁
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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?
Don't give them new ideas, Sony might jump in and patent that too.
Don't give them any ideas
I think the best viable option for them is to either offer a subscription model. Or increase requests for donations.
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