If this isn't a targetted advert in my browser, I don't know what is.
And here's where you turn it off:
The fact that you can turn it off is a good thing and is why Firefox is a good option.
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I am guessing the build in flathub ships with this turned off, I dont even have firefox suggest as a settings area. Nor is it in the build that ships with Fedora
Waterfox as well
I tell people Waterfox if you just want Firefox without the bullshit.
LibreWolf if you're more hardcore about privacy and are willing to deal with the occasional site not working.
I have both installed but mainly use LibreWolf. I have Waterfox for "irl stuff" like banking/shopping, etc stuff that doesn't approve of VPN use and I have to enter my real details into anyway.
*privacy
Nicely spotted lmao.
Fixed now :)
Yup, waterfox on phone, librewolf on pc 🤘
You mean ironfox on phone, librewolf on PC?
i just started using Ironfox on my phone! It's great
What's the difference between waterfox and ironfox?
Ironfox is a fork of mull. It's like the difference between waterfox and librewolf afaik
- waves from lonely ios island
Waterfox is life!
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.
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
It’s crazy that you think I thought that
Also, haven’t they been doing this for a long time?
Thanks for making me aware that there was yet another bullshit "feature" I needed to disable.
Yeah, i gave up self managing the adware and went to the Firefox fork, LibreWolf
I've considered doing the same myself. How has it been working out for you?
been running it for a year, not bad, had to just allow webgl coz so many sites won't load properly without it
anyone know the about:config value key?
edit: found it. Set browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.all to false. For anyone not using user.js, I highly recommend it. It means you only ever have to find these settings once. I keep mine in a git repo so it's easy to transport between machines.
Can you expand on user.js.
Is that the arkenfox user profile? How do you upload it? How often is it updated?
Sure. User.js is a file you can add in your Firefox profile directory which gets loaded each time Firefox starts.
Pretty good documentation here: https://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
The arkenfox one is a fully loaded pro-privacy user.js made by some knowledgeable people. I did use that one for my initial version iirc: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js
How often do I update it? Just when mozilla rolls out a new feature I don't like. I commit it to my repo, that way I easily take my settings to each different machine. You cannot change every FF setting with that file, but you can change the majority of them.
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I mean they have to make money somehow
Do they? Why?
They make most of it (a boatload already) from their google deal, how about using it better
Google "deal" .. Google gain way more coz we don't have MozillaOS today.
Also, they sold and selling users to search engines and still more and more milking their users...
Using FF we get double fck*d..if not using forks, a better option will be Chrome at this point
The Google deal is a problematic dependency and a single point of failure. I don't like putting ads in the browser as an alternative, but I'm unsure what would be a good funding model for the project.
Mozilla should definitely focus its resources on improving the browser rather than side quests.
Even more problematic because the LLM are destroying search.
Wait till people freak the fuck out when it becomes the Gemini bar.
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Mozilla is simultaneously both a genius Google-sponsored company that you can't criticize their decisions because you don't fund them, and a money-starved company that needs to make a profit and you're a monster for denying them the revenue
Mozilla is simultaneously a vassal of Google because it's 85% funded by its search revenue, and an over-resourced company that is a monster for trying to bring in even more revenue.
because you don’t fund them
Also you cannot fund them. All the money you give goes to Mozilla and its CEO which needs $millions to take those stupid decisions.
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Diversification is a good thing. If people don't donate at scale then we have Chrome, and FF so long as Google allows it to exist unless they find other streams.
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And here's where you turn it off:
Yeah. That’s why none of us ever see that crap. It’s easy.
You know the reason why I see it? Because it's a new feature. I already had all of the other rubbish turned off - but guess what - they turn it on for you by default.
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