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

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.

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.

Then turn it off?

Just turn it off. If they don't have income they don't exist.

Skill issue

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.

Better than the unlabeled sponsorship behind the default search engine.

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 :)

Can't you remove those?

You should see brave lol

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

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?

Either that or they go bankrupt. Design your own browser and give it out for free if you don't like it

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.

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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

How do you get this? My home page just has some recent links

This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.

Fennec F-droid

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.

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

I think the best viable option for them is to either offer a subscription model. Or increase requests for donations.

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

@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

Also, not being able to set the home button to a custom URL is fucking crazy. I want the home button to take me to my selfhosted dashboard that has all my services and links on it. I don't want the home button to take me to the dumbass firefox page and have to click another link to get to it.

Been using Kiwi instead for this sole reason but now Kiwi is dead. I'm not willing to concede this workflow and make an extra click because Mozilla is braindead and can't implement a functional home button like every single browser since the beginning of time.

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 :)

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

Don't give them any ideas

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.

I don't mind as those are easy to switch off.