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Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Re: Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Post by smoldesu »

zorrolovsky wrote: post #16
smoldesu wrote: post #2

> but Mozilla's unceasing obsession with inveigling advertising into the browser is... disturbing. Why? It's Open Source.

Because Mozilla misleads users with corporate-speak bs, telling them that they respect their privacy when in reality they have a history of doing anti-user nasty stuff. Today, the public is well aware that G, Meta, Amazon, Apple, etc... spy them and monetize their data to sell ads. So most people using products from those organizations know what to expect. What Mozilla does is worse than FAANG. They release anti-user…

Somehow, Open Source spyware and anti-user features don't really scare me. Is there any good reason to stop using Firefox today?

Re: Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Post by MaxikCZ »

aswerty wrote: post #4

Looks to be only in the US the advertising is being run (for now) according to the link you shared. > Note: Firefox Suggest is currently available in the United States. For users outside of the US, only local results (browsing history, bookmarks and open tab suggestions) are provided.

My homepage showing most visited sites got started showing ads, masking themselves as sites I visit the most (needles to say I never visited them before) just 2 days after I arrived in Dominican Republic from Europe. As soon as I noticed the ads I just uninstalled the browser, which is basically the strongest signal I can send.

Re: Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Post by smoldesu »

talonx wrote: post #14
activiation wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I guess the few people still using it can modify the source code and compile it...

Reminds of the days when any complaint about a missing video codec in Linux used to be met with "write and compile your own kernel".

So... bearing this in mind, did Linux fail?

Re: Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Post by activiation »

aerio wrote: post #15
activiation wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I guess the few people still using it can modify the source code and compile it...

That's essentially what Librewolf is. https://librewolf.net/

Are they good about staying up to date?

Re: Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Post by JohnFen »

smoldesu wrote: post #31
zorrolovsky wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Mozilla misleads users with corporate-speak bs, telling them that they respect their privacy when in reality they have a history of doing anti-user nasty stuff. Today, the public is well aware that G, Meta, Amazon, Apple, etc... spy them and monetize their data to sell ads. So most people using products from those organizations know what to expect. What Mozilla does is worse than FAANG. They release anti-user…

Somehow, Open Source spyware and anti-user features don't really scare me. Is there any good reason to stop using Firefox today?

Not if it works for you.

Re: Alert HN: Mozilla puts advertising into Firefox AGAIN

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Post by pawelduda »

ShamelessC wrote: post #27
pawelduda wrote: post #13

I missed tree tab extension in Firefox the most, now I'm using Brave and they just added vertical tab bar, which does the job for me. Strongly recommend it. Also they don't revamp the top bar every update with cool new color themes.

You "missed" it? Tree Style Tab in Firefox still exists and works better than ever for me.

Sorry, I missed it since I stopped using Firefox
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