I dont care as long as Ad Blocker works well on this!
Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
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Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#32So they're going to have certain sponsors' sites on my default New Tab page until I replace them with something else?
The horror!!
You people and your slippery slopes.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#33so just to double-check: no chance of this making it into iceweasel, right?
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#34New tab thumbnails preemptively disabled.
Between this, making Sync less secure and Australis, I start seriously wondering if Mozilla are attempting to drive users away.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#35> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead? Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
I'd really much rather pay for Firefox (or almost any product/service, really) than have to live with ads.
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#36I would be happy to see ads on the new tab page in Firefox if it means supporting Mozilla. They're doing so much stuff to protect freedom on the Internet, and I just don't see the big deal with helping talented people pay their bills.
Fuck that, I'd rather pay a small donation. £5/year is going to be more than they get from me for ads (as nobody wants to pay per impression, only click) and I'd double that if necessary.
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#37> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
"We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value to our shareholders"
What she really meant.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#38> "We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value," to users, she said. Nice bit of doublespeak there. Not showing me ads is valuable to me, you jerks.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead? Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
I'd rather pay for Firefox, especially if it means they stop halfarsedly aping every bad feature Chrome does as well.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't they have enough money from Google? They must make at least one dollar a year from each user through search. One would guess... Or is Google finally cutting into that? Just another way to get rid of competing browsers? Sadly Bing isn't an alternative outside of US (and I'm not even sure about that).
Mozilla has publicly stated that they make at least $300 million per year from Google (as of 2011) [1]. Although there are reports that this is closer to $1 billion per year now (including all search-related revenues). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
Where are those $1 billion reports from? That's the first I've heard of a number anything like that large. Firefox's market share hasn't tripled recently, and the current deal with Google is the same one that started in 2011, so it sounds unlikely to me.
Re: Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Non-profits still have to pay salaries. Or would you prefer FF effectively no longer exist and have to use Chrome instead? Honestly, explicit ads marked as ads in the UI are preferable to hidden advertisement/deals - like defaulting to Google search without communicating to users that money has changed hands for that preferential treatment.
I'd really much rather pay for Firefox (or almost any product/service, really) than have to live with ads.
These ads only exist until you've populated your six most visited sites.
The google default exists until you change it.
You have already been living with ads. But the google ad was not explicit.