I say let them cook a little, they arent drowning in donations and still do a tone of things for foss communities.

Let's remember that the de fuckto market (ie pleb) alternative is overwhelmingly Chrome.

We dont need such projects just so we as individuals can have privacy focused experiences but also for how that influences markets and society. And to have any influence you need certain power of masses.

Personaly those shortcuts are a feature I literally never use so much so I don't even register their existence anymore.

There are some more privacy friendly forks of "Firefox for Android", which have sponsored shortcuts disabled or minimized by default. For example:

• https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
• https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Feel free to give them a try :)

The browser itself is free, and they have to make money somehow to keep the company running (if the CEO didn't keep most of it for themself). If you don't like it, you can turn it off or download an ad-free fork.

@UltraGiGaGigantic Sorry about that, not quite what is expected to happen. I understand that it has been looked into and has now been resolved.

#fxhelp

Can't you remove those?

If we want software to be FOSS we have to stop bitching so much about developers trying to make the math work.

Yeah but you can literally just turn this off with no fuss.

1.Firefox for Android.

2.Tap the menu button.

3.Tap. Settings.

4.Tap Homepage.

5.Deselect Sponsored shortcuts under Shortcuts.

This was a bug

And looks like it's been fixed :)

Then turn it off?

So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?

If they make some money from harmless icons, I mean, I can live with it

This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.

The best thing about this is that you can turn it off

Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.

someone on lemmy has a bit of a hateboner for mozilla.

Better than the unlabeled sponsorship behind the default search engine.

This has been the case for several years. Super easy to turn them off

See ads, "how dare they" Sees paid version, "how dare they" Development costs time and money, pick your poison.

These can be turned off. Not great that they’re on by default, but you gotta pay the bills somehow right?

Why is this an issue ??

Meanwhile Let's discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)

Ads are one thing, but this seems excessive and probably unintentional. Looks like someone just filed this bug, which is another sign that it might be an unintentional problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944704

I think the downvoters can’t hold these two thoughts in their mind at the same time:

1. Firefox is the best browser.
2. Firefox has serious problems because Mozilla is a terrible steward of it.

Breaking news: Businesses need to make money, more at 11

Honestly, I don't care. I don't even look at that stuff, I just type in the bar thing what I want. Mozilla has to fund the project somehow.

Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?

Don't give them new ideas, Sony might jump in and patent that too.