While sponsored shortcuts are not exactly good it's still insanely better than the alternatives that will stop supporting good ad-blocking, or the other one tha

While sponsored shortcuts are not exactly good it's still insanely better than the alternatives that will stop supporting good ad-blocking, or the other one that will ignore the user choice of not making it the default and keep starting anyway when you use some other software/OS from the same company. The defaults of Firefox may not be optimal but they're easy to change and don't pester you to change them back. (with that being said I sure would like it if Firefox remembered my choice to disable sponsored shortcuts in my synchronization account)