Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
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Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#2Why not? I see the same stuff every day, could do with some interesting content
Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#3If this functionality really must be supported, then why isn't it just offered via an extension? Those Firefox users who want this functionality have the option of installing that extension. Otherwise, it doesn't interfere with other users who do not desire its presence.
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#4i have a lot of little beefs with new firefox versions for example not knowing that firefox leaks dns when you hover a link with no easy way to disable it.
but sponsored tiles is not one of them. out of all the browsers out there with silly home screen tiles firefox's are the easiest to disable or never actually hit in practice depending on your browser habits. it's not even really ads just someones homepage similar to the google sponsored home.
i feel this is not a functionality issue at all. it's a complete failure in the marketing and pr department. when people heard ad their alarm bells starting ringing(mine did too).
Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#5If this functionality really must be supported, then why isn't it just offered via an extension? Those Firefox users who want this functionality have the option of installing that extension. Otherwise, it doesn't interfere with other users who do not desire its presence.
It's not going to interfere with anything: sponsored tiles aren't going to replace any of your newtab tiles (pinned or otherwise) in an old profile.
This is simply for new users and new profiles, to populate the newtab page with useful links until all of those items would be sufficiently populated.
Or you could click the button in the top-right hand corner of the newtab page to turn the tiles off completely (it also seems to disable thumbnailing now, you had to turn that off manually a few versions back.)
Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#6If this functionality really must be supported, then why isn't it just offered via an extension? Those Firefox users who want this functionality have the option of installing that extension. Otherwise, it doesn't interfere with other users who do not desire its presence.
Firefox needs to make money. An optional extension that hardly anyone will install won't help with that.
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#7I don't mind the feature itself, but gotta love the confusing info coming from Mozilla's people over this, over the course of the last few days.
Open isn't always good when it comes to your PR.
Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#8i have a lot of little beefs with new firefox versions for example not knowing that firefox leaks dns when you hover a link with no easy way to disable it. but sponsored tiles is not one of them. out of all the browsers out there with silly home screen tiles firefox's are the easiest to disable or never actually hit in practice depending on your browser habits. it's not even really ads just someones homepage similar…
I don't think the ads were the problem. The language that bothered me was the phrase "user-enhancing" when describing ads. Call a spade a spade
Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#9Good. Mozilla needs more revenue sources, and the new tab page is one of the least obtrusive places to put ads I can think of.
Re: Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page
#10as long as the ads don't run code, i don't mind at all.