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home page bloat? person woman man camera tv? Care to share more details?
by sleepless 6y ago
home page bloat?
person woman man camera tv?
Care to share more details?
- snazz 6y agoBy default, the Firefox new tab page has ads and sponsored content, which neither Chrome nor Safari have. This "feature" certainly decreases trust in Firefox as the more privacy-friendly option, although it's easy to disable for experienced users.
- jamienicol 6y agoWhy would adverts decrease your trust in Firefox in terms of privacy?
- snazz 6y agoTargeted advertisements like the ones built into Firefox's new tab page are the exact kind of thing that privacy-conscious people like to block. When I recommend Firefox to a less-technical friend or relative and suggest that they use uBlock Origin or another powerful ad and tracking blocker, it's awfully ironic that the default new tab page is full of targeted advertisements. It's purely perception, of course, but it's the kind of thing that almost certainly isn't helping Firefox compete against Chrome.
- freediver 6y agoI mean this: https://imgur.com/a/aYutjsO https://imgur.com/a/aYutjsO Having to see mentions of Nazi camps on my home page or seeing a notification for Facebook containers although I don't use Facebook. All that bloat being enabled by default is troublesome and goes against very principles Mozilla advocates.
- sleepless 6y agoRight, you mean the content Mozilla shoves into new tab. I disabled this the first time I saw it. Not going down in the browser I use. Should it ever be impossible to disable, I'll switch browser in a blink.
- viklove 6y agoSo... disable it?
- roca 6y agoIt is two clicks to remove that entire "Highlights" section.
- freediver 6y agoI think you missed the point of “behavior enabled by design”. Of course I can remove it, as can someone who just stepped into a pile of poo clean their shoes. We’d just prefer that the pile of poo didn’t exist by default.
- roca 6y agoNo "principle Mozilla advocates" says that the start page should default to blank.
- bzb3 6y agoIt should not default to ads, at least.
- roca 6y agoVery little of the content on the default start page is ever paid advertising. AFAIK it's a few of the Highlights, sometimes.
- bzb3 6y agoSo they look like ads, which erode trust from users, and they don't even get paid for them. That just makes it more stupid.
- roca 6y agoThey're mostly thumbnails of Web sites people have recently visited or visited frequently, i.e. they look familiar. I don't think they look like ads to most people, and I certainly wouldn't conclude they do without actual data.
- Tagbert 6y agoI actually like some of the pocket articles on the new page tab. I do have to watch out that I don’t get distracted to often :)