Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    9·
    1 hour ago

    The browser itself is free, and they have to make money somehow to keep the company running (if the CEO didn’t keep most of it for themself). If you don’t like it, you can turn it off or download an ad-free fork.

  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    44 minutes ago

    If we want software to be FOSS we have to stop bitching so much about developers trying to make the math work.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 hours ago

    Yeah but you can literally just turn this off with no fuss.

    1.Firefox for Android.

    2.Tap the menu button.

    3.Tap. Settings.

    4.Tap Homepage.

    5.Deselect Sponsored shortcuts under Shortcuts.

  • a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 hours ago

    So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?

    • themusicman@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      Open source projects shouldn’t have “making money” on their priority list. I would donate to Mozilla if I had some guarantee that my money would actually fund Firefox development

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Why is this an issue ??

    Meanwhile Let’s discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)

  • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?

    Don’t give them new ideas, Sony might jump in and patent that too.