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I changed my default browser few days ago back to Safari. In Firefox, I would usually click the first two items on the home page which would be photopea or reddit. That day, they put 2 sponsored items for Amazon and Trivago instead at the first 2 spots and I accidentally clicked the amazon one without realizing because that first item was supposed to be Photopea. That was enough to piss me off:

https://i.imgur.com/s7NIfCX.png



Advertising inside of Firefox is going insane, even if it’s just ads for Mozilla. Tabs that opens when you open FF, little lines on the home page, “Big browser takes care of your privacy” starts looking very creepy.


They're desperate. The whole organization is dying.


The whole organization is dying while the CEO gets raises.


Well, they did fire the Christian CEO.


Well he did step down, he still didn't deserve all the ridiculousness that went on, though. glad he was able to make something good out of it.


The asshole homophobe who was CEO for like a week? Yeah, he deserved that. If you're going to try to tell people who they can fuck, don't be surprised if they say fuck you right back. He deserved it.

Mozilla was on its downhill slide long before him anyway.


You can disable the sponsored links.


Yeah, by using a better browser... Mozilla is kinda incompetent these days and shouldn't be trusted with stewardship. All they do is posture and market. All the real engineering seemingly stopped a long time ago.

Arguably Google can't either but at least they provide the engineering talent, if not the ethical leadership. Mozilla just offers spam.


In what areas do you think Chrome demonstrates engineering talent where Firefox is lacking?


Sorry but that's not good enough for a browser whose main selling point is "privacy". You don't get to play the good guy underdog and pull any shit.


These ads are not targeted ones, one may find them intrusive, but they supposedly respect your privacy.

More information about this (and how to disable these ads) can be found here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy


What do you use for adblocking on safari?


1Blocker is pretty good, especially if you use iOS (syncs rules, etc). Not free, though. Worth it to turn off annoyances IMHO.


I use Adblock Pro. I got it for free a while back and it’s perfect. AdGuard is another good one.


I switched to AdGuard after Safari stopped supporting uBlock Origin.


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