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Screw you Mozilla (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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If this isn't a targetted advert in my browser, I don't know what is.

And here's where you turn it off:

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

If this isn’t a targetted advert in my browser, I don’t know what is.

Somewhere, a dastardly Mozilla engineer is cursing you out for figuring it out, even though they specifically labeled it ‘Sponsored’ as a double-bluff.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 minutes ago

The phrasing that shows in my version on mobile is now "support Firefox with occasional sponsored suggestions," to try the guilt angle as well.

[–] dou9m@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s crazy that you think this was the engineers’ idea and not someone like the marketing director using their corporate capital to force the dev team to implement it… like pretty much every other company

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 54 minutes ago

It’s crazy that you think I thought that

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 hours ago

Also, haven’t they been doing this for a long time?