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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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.
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.
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?
The best thing about this is that you can turn it off
Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.
This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.
someone on lemmy has a bit of a hateboner for mozilla.
Then turn it off?
Also, I rarely use Firefox on my phone and my links are still all from websites I've visited.
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.
Ads are one thing, but this seems excessive and probably unintentional. Looks like someone just filed this bug, which is another sign that it might be an unintentional problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944704
Better than the unlabeled sponsorship behind the default search engine.
Don't give them any ideas
See ads, "how dare they" Sees paid version, "how dare they" Development costs time and money, pick your poison.
@UltraGiGaGigantic @lemmylurkaround Actually, I would gladly pay for a browser that is just doing its job.
I need one for macOS and iOS, preferrably one solution for both.
Could you point me in the right direction, please?
Maybe you can donate to Mozilla?
Are they going to give me a link to a version that doesn't do this? Otherwise what exactly am I paying for?
How has no one in this thread put together that you can literally just customize your home page, removing categories until it’s literally blank, or only keeping pages you select available.
Git good noobs.
I was okay with the sponsored links, but now this is affecting the functionality of the app. My phone is shit and I have a hard time sliding to the next page.
You can disable sponsored shortcuts on the homepage settings, if that's what it's referring to
Everyone is too busy being angry to click the little gear icon.
Eh, the criticism isn't invalid - those are still ads being added on the front page. What does irk me is people talking about how something breaks their workflow, yet they don't even try to fix the issue.
This has been the case for several years. Super easy to turn them off
These can be turned off. Not great that they’re on by default, but you gotta pay the bills somehow right?
People keep giving Mozilla shit for taking money from Google, yet they see an ad for a different company and lose their shit.
Skill issue 
I think the downvoters can’t hold these two thoughts in their mind at the same time:
No it's the complaint about one of the few transparent revenue flows Mozilla managed to pull off.
It's disabled one step deep on the settings
There is a shitload of stuff going wrong with the Mozilla foundation and this doesn't even make the top 10.
That's the reason for my down vote: it's nothing I want this community to focus on. It's basically engagement bait with the topic "ads bad".
Firefox is the best browser
It's only real competitors, in my eyes, are Firefox forks.
Agreed. I love Firefox and don't really like Mozilla.
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