Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
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Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
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Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#2I know this has been posted before, but it seems to be getting some traction and outrage on twitter and other social media today.
Props to Mozilla for finding revenue diversification opportunities, but this still doesn't feel quite right since it's enabled by default.
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#3I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt.
What should we do about it?
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#4I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
What is malicious about this? The advertisers have no access to personal information.
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#5I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
What's the malice here? Maybe I missed it.
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#6I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
Just one more thing to disable in the settings, when you don't want it. Just like search engine suggestions.. What's more to do?
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#7I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
What is malicious about this? The advertisers have no access to personal information.
Advertising is malicious.
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#8I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
> What should we do about it?
Fork it.
But I'm not sure I agree this is malicious. Perhaps annoying and even poorly thought out, but malicious implies they are actively trying to undermine the project, rather than trying to find ways to break the project's dependence on Google but missing the mark.
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#9I'm largely indifferent as I don't use Firefox but find it irksome that they are routinely touted as the torchbearers of privacy in the browser world.
Re: Firefox Suggest (address bar based ads, currently limited to US)
#10I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
What's the malice here? Maybe I missed it.
Advertising is fundamentally malicious.