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I love the new sponsored clickbait in my firefox start page (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Wow, that's awesome! I was very sad without the clickbait articles. I was staring at Firefox thinking "i wish it had a cluttered start page with clickbait articles and sponsored content like MS Edge" - and then with this new update the devs nailed it! Thanks!

That's really perfect!

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe more people will join me in thinking that the best thing to do is to set browser.newtabpage.enabled=false and otherwise fiddle with the settings until it just shows you nothing but a blank page in a nice colour when you open a new tab or window.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just have an empty new tab page. There is no need to use about:config to set this setting. The Firefox > Settings > Home the homepage for new windows or new tabs separately. At least the recent activity for Visited pages is useful for new window. I highly recommend to Sponsored Shortcuts, which is an alternative term for advertisement. Or just turn off the Firefox Home for newtabs by setting it to Blank Page.

[–] electro1@infosec.pub -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sponsored Shortcuts, which is an alternative term for advertisement

That's simply incorrect, Sponsored Shortcuts work differently than ads, in the later you're tracked and your PII gathered.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I wasn't talking about the technical implementation or differences in how they are handled, but more of a personal judgement. To me every Sponsored link is an advertisement, everywhere, not only in Firefox.

[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is part of my new setup ritual right along uBlock, DDG, and more. Shame that this is the best choice we have for a browser.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Just turn them off in settings. Lots of options there, no need to sod around with configs and what have you.