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Nooooo!!! enabled by default (mzl.la)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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my firefox (iOS) enabled sponsored shortcuts and I hate it. Yes I can disable it - I still hate it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

This is fine honestly. It could be so much worse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sucks, but at least you can remove them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

True. Unfortunately I'm paranoid enough to have to create network captures until I believe it's actually off. And even then... I'm unable to prove it doesnt send off a package of data after a certain amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

as sucky as it is, if we want Mozilla and Firefox to survive, we have to support them somehow, and this is one way to do it.

[–] TrinityTek 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been seeing this on Firefox on the desktop for some time now in the form of a sponsored Amazon link on new tabs. It sucks and I wish they could promote something better than such an evil corporation, but I don't begrudge them too much as I know they have to make a buck somewhere. I know I've never donated to Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I just made a donation after reading this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Development costs money 🤷 tbh I felt bad disabling it until I made a small donation myself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I get your point and I agree to an extend. However I disagree with any kind of tracking or analysis of user data. I'd rather pay money for software - no subscription. I'm ok paying for updates or upgrades now and then.

I'm also happy to donate (and did) but I'm also mad and paranoid enough to doubt such button actually turns this feature off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ya it sucks but as long as you can turn it off I can live with it. I wonder how much money they get from these?

[–] Gort 3 points 2 years ago

This sort of thing never looks good, but you can at least disable it. Annoyed me when I first saw it, but it was soon history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hasn’t it already been like this for a while? I remember Amazon and something else one day suddenly popped in mine.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 2 years ago

On Linux the distributors place custom shortcuts pretty much all the time to point to documentation or promote their own services, so I'm already used to remove BS bookmarks I don't want. No change there, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This why i use use forks likes librewolf