Mozilla To Introduce Advertising Into Firefox

andrew129260 · 13 May 2014

Phone Man said:

andrew129260 said:

They actually are no longer doing this.

See here:

Mozilla reassurance: Firefox new-tab page won't be plastered with logos - CNET

Did you read that article? The title is bogus, they wont do "Logos" they will do "sponsored adds"

Jim

The article changed from when I posted it.

Urthboundmisfit · 13 May 2014

self-delete

Iforgot · 18 May 2014

Phone Man said:

Its actually worst then first announced. They will track you and offer adds for what they think you want.(hand picked partners)

"A lot of our community found the language hard to decipher, and worried that we were going to turn Firefox into a mess of logos sold to the highest bidder; without user control, without user benefit," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's vice president of Firefox, in a blog post. "That's not going to happen. That's not who we are at Mozilla."

But the new-tab page still could carry sponsored content from "hand-picked partners," and Mozilla plans to experiment with that in the future.

Jim

Ghostery works in firefox running on Linux too :)

kronckew · 18 May 2014

Boozad said:

Gator said:

Can't wait for the tweak to get rid of this crap idea. :)

about:config

browser.newtab.url

www.whateveryouwant.co.uk

No more silly boxes in new tabs.

even better:

enter as url:

about:config

goto preference:

browser.newtab.url

change to:

about:blank

moot point as they've reconsidered their poor idea (tho they're still messing around with australis and trying to make firefox a chrome clone)

Fantail · 21 May 2014

Something about large Russian women ...

I use FF on on monitor at work - there's always the 'tic-tac-toe' icon in the upper right as a toggle.