Can one thing please not be full of adverts :( I’ll pay for the browser, I just want marketers to fuck off for a while lol
Did I miss something? I don’t think the browser is going to be full of ads?
Not that they’ve announced yet, I just meant more broadly I am very sick of advertising and adverts
Mozilla actually has (had?) ads in Firefox, right on its default start page.
You can easily turn them off in settings
Opt-out can never be the right answer.
Would you prefer Mozilla to not exist? They’re trying to find revenue streams other than the money they get from Google.
The current incarnation of Mozilla would not be any meaningful loss to me.
Well it would to everyone who relies on Mozilla for making the only current alternative engine to chromium. Mozilla dying would harm its forks, too, and finally give chromium a total monopoly
Other engines exist.
I would prefer Mozilla to ask. Some options:
- on first install, pick your poison - donate, accept ads, or accept negative karma
- pay to remove ads on a page - you’d pay into a bucket, and payments to remove ads would subtract from that
- more optional, revenue-generating services (e.g. push their VPN harder)
Right and that has existed long before today. And I can’t find anything in this article suggesting that the start page, or anywhere else, is going to be reallocated towards new ads which is what it sounds like the commenter above me was suggesting.
Realistically, I don’t think so either. Pessimistically, I give it until Jan 1st, 2030.
Your pessimism is more optimistic than my optimism
