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> Firefox does not block: > Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers > Sponsored content on the
by ImJamal 2mo ago
> Firefox does not block:
> Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers
> Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page
So block ads unless it impacts their revenue sources.
- add-sub-mul-div 2mo agoIt doesn't have those limitations on Windows or Android, so it must be an Apple requirement or limitation.
- smallerize 2mo agoEasylist does not block those things on any platforms. I'm not aware of any adblockers that can block the ads on the built-in New Tab page. (You can just disable them in settings anyway.)
- eviks 2mo ago"better than nothing"
- pmkary 2mo agoAds are bad! Blocking ads on our own homepage? How do you expect us to keep the lights on?
- rvz 2mo agoMozilla knows not to bite Google’s hand, who is the one that actually feeds them hundreds of millions of dollars.
- charcircuit 2mo agoMozilla is the one who is funneling billions of dollars worth of traffic to Google.
- EbNar 2mo agoSo, is Mozilla promoting a search engine monoculture? Yeah, "Google bad, but..."
- charcircuit 2mo agoOr is Google the best at monetizing queries and Mozilla is using whoever is best at doing it.
- rvz 2mo agoGoogle's only reason for keeping Mozilla on life support is to avoid the argument of being a total and complete browser monopoly. Firefox's global traffic market share is less than double digits [0] and is less than 5%. Google technically doesn't need traffic from Firefox and Google is roughly paying half a billion ($585M) a year for it. [1] [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share [1] https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20AuditedFinancials.pdf https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20A...
- charcircuit 2mo agoThis doesn't make sense as Edge is a bigger browser than Firefox and competes with Google in the browser space. What Google pays for the traffic is less than what the traffic is worth (Google profits a lot too).
- WarmWash 2mo agoThe correct way to avoid ads is to not visit pages that use them.
- JacobKfromIRC 2mo agoIs this actually feasible? How do you tell when a page uses ads? How do you find pages without ads when you search for something?
- ImJamal 2mo agoAnd a better question is how do you find a page without searching since they are exempting search engines from ad blocking.
- pessimizer 2mo agoThat's the same way I avoid bad movies. I watch them first, before I watch them, just to make sure they're good.
- lakkal 2mo ago> Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page Not ideal, but (at least on desktop) you can set the Home page to a blank page, and there is an extension called 'Blank New Tab' that I've been using for quite a while.
- NicuCalcea 2mo ago> You can manage the sponsored content on the Firefox Home and New Tab page in your Homepage settings.
- llm_nerd 2mo agoThis feels like a place where the "yet you also participate in society" comic fits.