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Firefox has ads too. At least you can turn them off, until they add another category and you have to go figure out how to turn off the new ones.
by sp332 4y ago
Firefox has ads too. At least you can turn them off, until they add another category and you have to go figure out how to turn off the new ones.
- contravariant 4y agoIt's times like these that I'm glad I use about:blank as my new tab page.
- LoganDark 4y agoGlad I'm not alone in this.
- darkwater 4y agoHaving an Amazon and Nike sponsored links in the new tab page is having ads strictly speaking but they are nor intrusive nor targeting you specifically, so they can be "tolerable". To be honest my mind just skip them. The day they change this for worse, then I'll complain as well.
- sensanaty 4y agoI don't think I've ever seen a single ad on Firefox (including on any website thanks to uBlock working better on FF than anywhere else), what ads are you talking about?
- b112 4y agoThere are ads in the urlbar, ads on the newtab page, ads, ads, ads! This is on desktop.
- sp332 4y agoI was mainly thinking of the ones on the new tab page. Years ago they had "tiles" or something and I turned those off, then they added "suggestions" and they're not different but the old setting doesn't apply to them.
- LoganDark 4y agoPocket.
- sp332 4y agoMozilla owns Pocket.
- chlorion 4y agoGoogle owns the product that they are advertising in Chrome as well I think. That doesn't make it any better really! Afaik both Firefox and Chrome are advertising their own products in the browser at this point in time, so there isn't a whole lot of options to escape this. Maybe Linux distros could patch some of this stuff out or disable it via default settings at least.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI think his point is that Pocket is the piece of shit that pushes the "sponsored" articles people refer to as ads.
- bennyp101 4y agoI have never seen ads on Firefox?