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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?

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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

Feel free to give them a try :)

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 2 points 5 months ago
[–] Eyedust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I use Fennec for my phone, but I'm rediscovering Floorp on desktop right now and I'm seriously impressed. Smoothest Fox Fork I've used in a long time.